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The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1902-08-07

would be over "a if he were elected
and served to the end of his term.
Not one of the great political par
ties, says Mr.. Stanwood, has ever
elected or nominated man so old
as Mr.. Olney will be in 1904. The
Oldest man ever elected president
was William Henry Harrison. who
was 67'in 1910. jackson was Is when
elected the second time. Buchanan
was IS the year of his nomination
and Taylor was 81. Henry Clay was
81 when he was candidate in 1874,
Gen. Scott was 67 when he ran in
1862, and Cass was Ga when he ran
in 1s4s. There is no precedent for
a presidential candidate of GO, and
politicians are as much guided by
precedents as lawyers are.
Mr.. Stanwood says Mr.. Blaine told
him in 1892 when he was 62 that he
no longer desired to be president; he
had reached time of life when he
craved rest. "When the American
people elect u president" said Mr..
Blaine, "they require, him to remain
awake four years. l need my Sleep"
The American people make more de-
mands upon the time and energies of
their chief magistrate than they did
in the quiet days of the first presi.
dents. 1t is doubtful whether the
average man put in the White house
at the age of 60 would live through
his term if he tried to do all that
was expected of him. Lord Sails
bury at the age of 72 has resigned
the premiership because he no longer
feels equal to the discharge of it's
duties.
The mental and physical strain to
which an American president is SUBJ
jected is increasing. The office is
not one for men who have to nurse
strength weakened by the insidious
approaches of old age. There doubt
less are exceptional men of 60 who
are able to stand four years siege
of constant work and worry, but a
political party will be quite excus-
able if it declines to look for them
and gives preference to younger men.
The age limitation which. excludes
Mr.. Olney, says the Chicago Tribune,
will not be objected to by David
Bennett Hill, who is only SO. 1t will
not affect Arthur p. German, who
is a little over 60. It will not be diff
ficult for the democrats to find a
candidate who has not lived up to
the maximum limit of 81 years. .s
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1902-08-07
HOW MEXICANS LIVE.
Peculiar Customs Noted by Visitors
from the States.
Light Rreakfast Taken By Inhabi-
sants Of Our sister Republic
Food of the Working Pe0-
pie 10 Very Plain.

The Mexican breakfast, like that
of the French, consists only of bread
and coffee. Lunch and dinner, or
dinner and supper. as they are call
ed, differ but slightly. Dinner is
served usually about o'clock. 1t
begins with soup and eggs, and then
follow q number of meats, each
served as a separate course. with an
entire change of service every time.
The meats are eaten quite alone,
few vegetables being served in adj
dition to the salad course. and such
as are used for garnishment. The
dessert courses at a Mexican table
differ even more radically from those
served on American tables. Home
made pies, cakes and buildings are
practically unknown.
The Mexican housewife, says Mod
ern Mexico, pays comparatively lit
tie attention to the kitchen, and
rarely cooks anything herself. If
pastry is desired, it is purchased at
the dulceria. Nothing is baked in a
Mexican house, even the bread being
universally bought from bakers.
Mexican cooks do not, as rule, un-
derstand pastry making, and their
sweets are limited to stewed fruits,
usually cooked to the consistency of
the richest and sweetest preserves,
SO that a very small portion is salts
flying.
Business hours in Mexico begin in
the afternoon at $3.50 or o'clock,
and run until I or in the evening,
SO that the supper hour falls any
where from $3.50 to an hour later.
This is probably one reason that
Mexicans are not more given to even
ing entertainments. Attendance up
on the theater entails the necessity
of an unusually early supper, or else
in postponement until after the per-
Torrance, thing that often occurs.
On the cher hand, leisurely sup
per of an hour or more, beginning at
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1902-08-07
CAKES FOR CORONATION.
London Bakers Are Trying to Guido
Each Other in Producing Elab-
crate Designs.

The bakers. in their efforts to
tempt attention and stimulate crav-
ing for their wares, have now taken
advantage of the kings postponed
coronation. While the services in
the Abbey have been delayed by the
illness of the king of England the
bakers have undauntedly gone ahead
and in many of their windows are
exhibited crown cakes of the most
elaborate design.
Some of the cakes are, more strict
ly speaking, coronet cakes, for they
have been made to resemble the cor
onets of earls. viscounts and dukes.
"The crown proper" said a baker,
whose window was ornamented with
an enormous skiing cake,' lis made
of almond or cream wafer paste;
the gems are smooth sugared ORA
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1902-08-07

Mine Workers. His subsequent rise in
power within the organization was ex-
tremely rapid. In 1897 he was elected
national organizer. in 1898 vice pres
ident, and in 1899 president. At the
beginning of the great strike in 1900
the power of the organization was al
most exclusively among the bituminous
coal miners of the west, who had grad
ually won by collective bargaining"
much better terms as to hours, wages
and treatment than were accorded To
the anthracite miners of central and
eastern PENNSYLVANIA. Among the lat
ter less than 10000 out of 100000 were
connected with the union. The success
of the strike, largely due to Mr.. Mitch
ell, was followed by the accession to
the union OF. nearly the whole body
of anthracite miners, including the re-
cent immigrants from eastern Europe
At present, therefore, he has support
ing him great organization, but the
time of battle is not of his choosing.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1902-08-07
OLNEY BARRED BY AGE.
why the Democratic Party IL Not
Likely to Nominate Him for the
Presldency In 1904.

When some Memphis democrats let
Richard Olney know that they would
like to see him the presidential
nominee of the party he told them
he did not wish to be considered q
candidate. He gave no reason for
his unwillingness to respond to their
kind advances. In letter to New
York paper Edward Stanwood says
Mr.. Olney could have pleaded his
age as an all sufficient reason why
he should not be considered in con-
nection with the presidency. In 1904
Mr.. Olney will be 50 years old and
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1902-08-07
HAD FAITH In HIMSELF.
United Nine Workers, Began
Life ~ q Nine BOY.

The leader of the coal miners and
president of the United Mine Workers
is thus described in brief sketch in
the Outlook:
Like so many other labor leaders in
this country, he is still a young man.
He is 81 years of age. He went into
the coal mines as boy of 10. His
school education as supplemented by
night studies, chiefly upon economic
questions, and especially those relat-
ing to organization of labor. He joined
the knights of Labor in 1855. and ten
years later, when he was IS years old,
he was elected secretary-treasurer of
district organization of the United
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1902-08-07
Daily Mail. from Heaven.

A spiritualistic journal in st.
Petersburg has column headed
sFrom the Other World" In it ap-
pears signed communications from
the dead, in reply to queries from the
living. Any subscriber can send a
letter to a dead person on forward
ing to the editor four copecs, which
are equal to about three cents. The
dead seem to be prompt correspond
ents, for no inquirer has to wait
more than week for a letter to
come from the other world. Tbs
heavenly mails are always on time,
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1902-08-07
Democrats Ticket.


The ticket selected by the North Da-
kota democrats, who assembled in state
convention at Fargo, was Us follows:
Congressmen-L. A. LELAND, Edge
ley; v. r. Lowell, Fargo.
GOVERNOR. E. Cronan, Fargo.
Lieutenant Governor-M. C. Chimes,
jamestown.
Secretary of state-John Quarum,
Abercrombie.
AUDITOR. F. Morrison, Bottineau.
Treasurer-James Mcdonald, Graf
ton.
Attorney General-M. J. Barrett,
Minot.
Superintendent Instructions-V. Ste
fanson, Grand Forks.
Commissioner of insurance.. A.
Wilson, Bathgate.
Judge John M. Cochrane of Grand
Forks, the Republican nominee for
judge of supreme court was Endorsed.
The platform adopted declares ale
glance to the time-honored principles
of the Democratic party as set forth
in national platforms adopted in the
past; declares strongly against the SO.
called railroad merger; pledges itself
to a resubmission of the prohibition
law; favors initiative and referendum;
demands the repeal of the fellow serv.
want law; and calls for the equal taxa.
ton of corporations.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1902-08-07

Q o'clock, brings the close pretty
close to bedtime.
The Mexican day laborer swallows
q bowl of coffee at street stand,
on his way to work if he is fortunate
enough to pass one, and has the
price, but usually he begins his daily
toll upon an empty stomach. About
o'clock his faithful spouse, or
some member of his family, and, not
infrequently, all of them, mother and
children, come trudging to the scene
of labor with basket containing
q pitcher of soupy brown beans, tor
tillas (corn cakes that form the staff
of life among the lower classes),
some rice and possibly some bits of
meat that are minced in tortilla,
which, in addition to serving often as
both bread and meat, is also knife
and fork and spoon. Bits are torn
off, and by deftly curling it into
semi-circular form and doubling the
end it is used as an effective scoop
for even liquid food.
A jug or pulque, the fermented
juice of the maguey or century plant,
that is the universal beverage among
the masses on the tableland, is also
a usual accompaniment of this meal.
The Mexican laborer does not have
agmidday rest, but works until about
o'clock, when the morning repast
is repeated without variation as to
bill of fare. He begins his toll at
daybreak, and is expected to work
till dark, with little regard to a
clock. On his way home he stops at
a pulqueria to have all the drinks
he can afford, and arrived at his
home he may find something more
to eat and he may not. It seems to
make little difference to him.
The Mexican peon can eat more
or get along on less, than almost any
other laborer on earth. In the south
ern part of the country, where the
mountain Indians are at times draft.
ed for work in the lower country
these men bring with them ball OF
heavy cornmeal paste, about the size
of their heads, slung about their
necks with a string. When hungry
they break off a piece of this and
mix it up in cup of water, and up
on this single ration they will sub.
sist for an entire week.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1902-08-07
LONDON coRoNET CAKES.
"a Few of the Works Of Art Produced
by English Bakers.)

gee almonds and silver beads and
the large balls. as well as the imi-
tation Of the ermine fur are made
of meringue icings very slowly baked
SO as not become discolored. The
meringue is busted with coarsely
crushed, but evenly sifted cut loaf
sugar, about the size of wheat ker-
nels, and the dark spots are applied
after baking with camel's hair
brush. The arms of the crown are
made in sections and bent while hot
over properly shaped tin strips, and
the leaves are separately formed and
slightly twisted. The arms and leaves
are then fastened on the head rim
with hot suger."
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1902-08-07
Talked Herself to Death.

Mrs. Sarah r. Howell, Of Atlanta,
Ca, became demented through the
continuous consideration of religious
themes. For sixty-eight hours she
spoke constantly, until she became
unconscious, and in this condition
died. She had talked herself to
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1902-08-07
Wood Pulp Tor Paper.

The forests Of Norway and Swe-
den, which for many years have. fur
nished pulp for the paper-makers of
Europe, are almost denuded. The
forests in the United States are rap
idly thinning out, and now the pa
per-makers are looking to Canada for
their supply.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1902-08-07
steel Stronger Than stone.

An experiment, with a view to as
certain the relative resistance, under
pressure, of the hardest steel and
the hardest stone, was recently made
at Vienna. Small cubes, measuring
lem, of corundum and the finest
steel were subjected to the test. The
corundum broke under the weight of
six tons, but the steel resisted up TO
AZ tons.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1902-08-07
CONDITION of King.

Cowes, Aug. 4.--King Edward spent
most of Saturday on the deck of the
Victoria and Albert. Several distin-
guished visitors were received in audi
ence in the afternoon. His majesty
appeared to be in good health and spir-
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1902-08-07
The state Fair.

The management of the State Fair
association is getting well along with
it's program for the annual fair to be
held during the week commencing
September %. A large amount will
be appropriated for races. The direc-
tors have set aside $4,000 as starter
for these attractions. Baseball games
of high order will also be among
the drawing cards. The good crops
insure the best agricultural display
ever had. The increase in the cream
cry industry of this region will at
tract manufacturers of creamery
goods. Several exhibits of high grade
cattle, horses and sheep will be on
hand.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1902-08-07
The Act of u Foolish Boy.

The accident which cost Mr.. Will
lam Ritchey of Hannah his life was
caused by boy suddenly jumping
out of the grass and waving his arms,
which caused the horse to jump side
ways, throwing both Mr., and Mrs.
Ritchey out of the buggy. Mr.. Ritz
chey struck in such manner as to
break several ribs, one of the broken
ribs entering his lung. He lived for
days, death being caused by the lung
filling up. His wife was somewhat
injured, but not seriously. 1t seemed
that the boy had been stationed at
the point where the accident occurred
to warn people that certain road
across field had been discontinued,
the owner having plowed up the field.
and the energetic manner in which
the boy carried out his instructions
undoubtedly cost Mr.. Ritchey his life.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1902-08-07
Excited Over Coal.

Settlers in Ward county are excited
over the efforts of some of the Ignite
coal miners to have the lands in
that part of the state declared sub
ject to mineral entry instead of to
the usual homestead entries govern
ing farm lands.
The trouble arises over the fact that
the Ignite coal beds underlie the en-
tire northwestern part of the state,
and it is simply question of their
value.
If subject to mineral entry the gov
eminent will receive all the way from
$40 to $25 per acre instead of $3.50,
under the homestead laws.
Action has been begun as the result
OF tender of mineral fling ON a
quarter section which had been home
steaded, but upon which final proof
had not been made.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1902-08-07
THE MARKETS.
Grain. Provisions, Etc.

Grain, Provisions, Etc.
Chicago. Aug. g.
wHEAT-Ruled higher. September sold
at 67N@ToNc; December. esN@69hc.
CORN-Held strong. September sold
at 5s1z@5sc; December. 4s@4shc.
OATS-Flrm. September sold at $40
33hc for new: December. new. 30A031hc.
RYE-Farly active and steady. No. :
car lots SIC; by sample. 54d57c; Septembes
delivery, SIC.
BARLEY-Quiet. Screenings. poor to
choice, 30G4Sc; new Barley, stained. 4O950c.
depending on condition.; sound, common to
good color. 5o@60c.
BUTTER-Market steadier. Creamery.
16019Nc per pound; dhiries. 15@1S1kc.
POTATOES - Market steady. Early
Ohios, Kansas sacked, 35gSSc; Illinois or
st. Louis sacked, 36@4Oc.
EGGs-Quiet At mark. cases included.
15@16hc; loss off, cases returned, lie.
LIVE POULTRY-Market steaCy. Tur-
keys. 12c: chickens. spring, sls1sc; ducks.
sk@l1c. ss sv. Ga
New York, Aug. 2.
notwithstanding rma nd fairly active.
September. "A 1l-l6975 1-1sc: December. TAX
Q74 1870; May, 76 11-16@77c.
RYE-Quiet. State. 62G63c c. l. I. New
York car lots; No. 2 western, 6511c I. o. b.
afloat.
CoRN-@rong on September. septem-
Der, 61h@62c: May. 45b@45Ac.
OATS-Ruled strong also In sympathy
with other markets. Track white state,
65@6ec; track white western, 65a69c.
BUTTER-Market steady. State dairy.
17@9Oc; state creamery, 17@901zc: reno
waited, 1601Sc; factory. 141k016hc; imita-
ton creamery, 15k0d7hc.
CHEESE-Market weak to steady New
state, full creams, small colored, fancy,
03/os II MI QAo 1orr 0A0s
large white, SIC.
EGGS-Market steady. State and Penn
sylyania, 1S020hc; western candled. $50
1910; do. uncandled, 14@171zc.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1902-08-07
GoNZALo DE QUEsADA.
minister at Washington from the New
y Republic of Cuba)

4 Republic OF Cuba.J
December Is. 1868. educated in the
public schools of New York, and later
in the college of the City of New
York, from which he was graduated
in 1888. After studying at Columbia
and New York universities he took his
degree in law. Senior Quesada repre-
sented the Republic of Cuba during
the revolution. and became the pet
of the patriotic ladies in Washington.
He is dark-eyed, handsome, gallant
young man and a thorough diplo-
mat. 5.s,
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1902-08-07
Live Stock.

NAiCdSOs aug. Z.
HOGS-Choice to heavy prime shipping,
765@7.S21h: plain to choice heavy packing.
$7.25@7.55; plain to choice heavy mixed.
$7.3Og7.60; selected butcher weights, $500
IT'S; assorted light. $7.1507.55; common to
fancy light mixed. $6.s5@7.40: thin to choice.
&.75@7.1O
CATTLE-Prime beeves, $S.40@S.75; good
to choice beeves, $7.7008. 30: fair to good ex-
port and shipping steers. s.. 90g7.6O; medium
beef steers, $6D@6.s5; plain and medium
beef steers. $5.6O96.20; common to rough.
$4a5@5.40; good to fancy heifers, $4.65@6a6:
good to choice feeders. $4.40963o; poor to
good stock steers. s2.5o@495; bulls. plain
to fancy. $2.65@66O; good to fat cows and
heifers, $s.5004.30: fed Texas steers, 1850
go; Texas cows, bulls and grass steers.
$3.&0470; western range steers, $4.O046. 90.
South Omaha, Neb., Aug. 2.
CATTLE-Market steady. Native steers.
4.75@S.5; cows and heifers. 1885, IS;
western steers. $4.e0g6.15: Texas st GERS. s425
@5.05; Gamers. s1.5Oq3G0: stockers and
feeders. $275@5.25; calves. $3.004550; bulls.
stays. ETC.. $25094.H.
HOGS-Market SC lower, closed strong.
Heavy, $7.4Og755; mixed, $7.30@7.45; light.
$7.0@7.45; pigs. S6.500700 bulk of sales. $3.50
@7.45.
SHEEP-Aiarket steady. Fed muttons,
yearlings. $3.75@450; western Wethers. $3.2k
@4.25; ewes, $20063.50: common and stock
ers. $2003.3: lambs S3.0o@67S
Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1902-04-26
DIAMONDS" TRIBUTE.
Says Complimentary Things About Rip

Says Complimentary Things About RIP
ley, of the Santa Fe.
The Lehigh Valley road published a
neat monthly magazine called the
BLACK Diamond Express Monthly"
The magazine is like the New York
Central's Four Track News, and is fill
ed with interesting matter for travel
ers and railroad people. In the april
number of the Black Diamond Express
Monthly is the following front page
article about President E. p. Ripley,
of the Santa Fee:
Edward Payson Ripley, president of
the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe rail-
way, the man who has placed that sys-
ten on the high road to prosperity, first
saw the light in the historic town of
Dorchester. in the grand old common
wealth of Massachusetts.
"a stalwart son of worthy sires, big
in body and big in brain. he was, per
haps, the one man in railway circles
physically and mentally capable of sue
cessfully accomplishing this gigantic
task set before him.
His career in the transportation ser
vice began in 1868, when in the first
bloom of young manhood. After hav-
ing served the Union Star line at Bos.
ton as contracting freight agent he be.
came chief clerk to General Eastern
Agent Bean, of the Chicago, Burlington
& Quincy, having acted in that capa.
city for two years. His next step up
ward was to become the New England
agent of that line.
"Wel earned promotion next made
him the general eastern agent, and in
1878, ten years from the time of his en-.
trance into railway service, advanced
him to the high and responsible posi-
ton of general freight agent of the
vast Burlington system and from
thence to the general management of
the same road was but a natural Sc
quence.
in 1890 he left the Burlington to be.
come the third vice president Of the
Chicago. Milwaukee & st. Paul rail
way. which position he held until, in
1896. he was elected president of the
Santa Fee.
"He is distinctly a man of affairs. OF
strong personality, an indefatigable
worker, somewhat brusque in his man.
ner and democratic in his views, he is
the worthy head of a great system and
an example for the rising generation
Of railway attaches to look up to and
pattern after, should they aspire to ad.
vancement, honor and prosperity"
Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1902-04-26
WANTS 100000.
President Roosevelt Interested in Pan
American Railroad Scheme.

President roosevelt Interested IN ran
American Railroad Scheme.
The president Thursday transmitted
to the senate a report made by the Sec
rotary OF state concerning the action
of the Pan-American congress recently
held in the City of Mexico on the sub
ject of the suggested Pan-American
railway connecting the American con-
tinents. The secretary calls special at
tention to the request of the confer
ence hat the United States appoint a
commission to investigate the'question
at issue, and urges that two commits
sions accordingly be appointed. The
president endorses the suggestion and
says:
Il recommend an apprcpr,i ton hy
congress of the sum of 5000 900, or as
much thereof as may be necessary to
enable the president to appoint the
commissioners to visit Central and
South America to carry the purpose
of the resolution into effect, and to in
vestigate and report upon the means
of extending the commerce of the Unit
ed States with those regions"
Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1902-04-26
NOT SOLD TO HARTMAN.
Joseph Hampson Denies the Usual Ru'
NOR on Behalf of His Road.

Joseph Hampson, president of the
Mexico, Cuernavaca q Pacific railroad,
and a former resident of Denver, came
in from Mexico in his private a and
left over the Union Pacific for the east,
says the Denver Republican. Mr..
Hampson said there was nothing in
the report t~elegraphed to the United
States that E. H. Hartman, who re-
Gently went over the road, would pur,
chase it. wherever MI. Hartman
goes said Mr.. Hampson, the state
ment that ne is going to buy some
railroad property follows him. The
Cuernavaca road is in a very prosper
Gus condition and we are doing more
construction work. There is no deaI
on for the property"