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Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1902-03-20
ONE ACRE OF CORN.


I send you herewith an account Of
IN experimental test of the cost of
growing an acre of corn. 1 was in
duced to make the test after reading
statements at different times that
were conflicting as to cost of produc
tion. That it pays to raise corn if
you raise the right kind and grow it
the right way, it seems to me is
shown by the figures herewith given.
I planted Worlds Fair Yellow Dent
corn, which yielded 112 bushels Tin
the earl, Is of which were soft and
81 suitable to crib. It was planted
between the 10th and 18th of June,
1901, sowed one way three feet, a
kernel every nine inches the other
way. Use of land and seed is not
taken into account. Yield was the
increase from 80 kernels planted in
1900, and only one-half of what the
80 kernels produced was used in
planting the acre. The accounting
as given below brings cost of raising
one bushel ears of corn in this eX-
pertinent to II 1856 cents. The fig
ures of cost in detail are as follows:
fiOWlng ~ "
Preparing ground for planting (twice
over at intervals. Observation-Disclosures. ! 90
Planting and cultivating. 40
Cutting ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 90
Husking ............................ I As
Total 81 q
And to the credit side of the led
ger as follows:
81 blu. sound corn at SOC per bu. .....s29 10
Is bu soft corn at zoe per bu........ 3 90
1884 bundles stalks at &c each....... 80
Total .................. .$se Is
Less cost of production. II 50
wet prOnt......... ..$2I ~
This corn was cut and shocked in
squares of IS feet. To bind the
shock required the whole length of q
seven-foot step-ladder, and a shock
compressor with ten feet of rope at
tached to encircle top of shock. TAX
ing into consideration the lateness
of planting, it is quite a fair yield.
The corn was cut before any frost.
E. d. Bussey, in Rural Voice.
Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1902-03-20

By depressing the lever the axle l.,
easily raised and is kept in position.
With this device the weight is over
the center of the base and the wagon
or buggy will not run backward or
forward as it often does with other
jacks. The base of the jack may be
as long as necessary. The hinge at
c should be somewhat below the CEN
ter of a d. always use bolts instead
of nails for constructing this jack
Orange Judd Farmer.
Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1902-03-20
THREE woMEN's ERAs.
The Age. Of Queen. Elizabeth. Anne
and Victoria Were Remark
able EpOchs,

It is a remarkable fact that three
sovereign ladies-Elizabeth, Anne and
Victoria-have given their names to
the three greatest periods of English
literature, which were also eras of
notable military conquest. Elizabeth,
herself learned but stilted and pc
dantic writer, gave an impulse to au-
thorship' which eliminated in Shake
speare and Bacon and brilliant gal
axy of lesser lights. The reign Of
Queen Anne, dull, commonplace, in
dolent woman with no intellectual as
pirations, was rendered illustrious by
the genius of Prior, Pope, Swift, Adj
Olson, Defoe, Congreve and other au-
thors, while Newton and Berkeley
were making valuable discoveries in
science. then in its infancy, and Marl-
borough was winning brilliant VIC
tories.
Space fails for mention of even the
foremost of the writer's who have lent
honor and renown to the Victorian age
names familiar as household words.
Victoria herself made some modest es-
says III dulAoA oAl CuiOllCleS VI luc
travels and domestic life of the royal
family in it's various resorts, which
greatly endeared her to her people, for
even the most trivial personal details
of the reigning house are of surpass-
ing interest. Remarkable as were the
literary achievements of the Victorian
age, and worthy as were the contribu-
tions to art and music, they fall far
below the signal triumphs achieved by
science in this reign of almost GA years
the longest in British annals.
Stillgreater than all the achievements
of art, literature and science, which
have lent such luster to the Victorian
age, says the Minneapolis Tribune, are
its abolition of ancient abuses, the edu-
cational and philanthropical activities.
its efforts for ameliorating the horrors
of war and for settling international
difficulties by peaceful arbitration
rather than by the sword.
Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1902-03-20
A Car Load Of Dimes.

One would naturally think that the pack
age dye business was small industry, but
there is more than one million dollars worth
of package dyes sold in the United States
every year.
One of the largest package dye factories
in the world is that of the Putnam Fadeless
Dyes Co., Unionyille, Mo: In this factory
alone, three million packages of Putnam
Fade1ess Dyes are made every year. TO
put up this amount Of dyes requires the
handling of seven million of envelopes, think
of it, seven millions Of envelopes laid length
wise would reach a distance Of seven hun
dred miles; if laid one upon the other they
would make a pile of Putnam Fadeless Dyes
q miles high. As each envelope has to be
plete, the completion Of three millions of
packages requires that they be handled
thirty-ive million times. This of course
gives employment to number of people,
the Putnam Fadeless Dye Company alone
employ almost hundred people, 50 per
cent. of whom are young ladies.
As each package retails for lOc the weight
of the retail price of the three millions pack
ages in dimes is $4,000 pounds, or almost
car load
Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1902-03-20
THE AGE OF TOOLS.
u..,.-. Must Keep pace with Mod
ern Progress or They Will m
eyitably Fall Behind.

The tools and machinery of Amer
ica are capturing the world. The ma
chine. with it's unerring accuracy, has
taken the place of human hands in
every department of industry, and has
Immensely increased the productive
capacity Of the artisan. On the farm,
too. the same rule controls. The mod
ern binders have superseded the old,
slow methods of the harvest, and made
the great grain fields a possibility.
To the effective use of machinery on
the farm is due the great exporting
capacity of the country, and in every
ayocation in life it is the man behind
the machine that is moving civilization
forward. 80
Brain power is taking the place of
human muscle, and the result is an
elevation of the farmer to higher
plane, requiring the application of
business methods to agriculture. The
inevitable tendency of the increased
use of machinery on the farm is the
increase in acreage in the hands of
one man, since the machines make in
tensive culture possible over larger
areas. The more effective the ma
chimes are made the wider scope they
will need, and great farms, conducted
on wise business methods, will become
more and more common as men realize
the possibilities of such culture. The
great accommodations of capital will not
always be kept out of the farm, for
the capitalists will come to see what
money will do in businesslike farm
ing. 1t is the age of tools and ma
chinery, and the farm must keep up
with the procession. - Practical
Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1902-03-20
BUoYANcY MELLoWs AGE.
of Youth Still Stirs With
in Us.

People grow old by thinking them
selves old. When they reach the age
of 40, so or 60, they imagine that they
look like others of the same age, and
that they soon will be useless, unfit
for work and unable to perform their
wonted duties. AS surely as they
think it it will come true, for thought is
creative, says a philosophic writer.
How many of us can say with Job:
''The thing which I greatly feared is
come upon me-"
The time will come when children
will not be allowed to celebrate their
birthdays; when they will know that.
by thinking themselves young, they
will remain young, and that they will
cease to grow old when they cease
to believe in old age. The body is
built up of beliefs, and our convictions
are stamped upon every fiber of our
beings. What we believe, what we
think, that we are; SO people remain,
young in spirit never grow old.
Not one of hundred students, of
whom the writer was one, under Oliver
Wendell Holmes, at Harvard, ever
thought of him as an old man, al
though he had then passed his eight
ieth birthday. His spirit was so young
and he was so buoyant, so fresh and
full of life, that we always thought
of him as one of ourselves. His vi
vacity and joyousness were contagious.
You could not be in his presence five
minutes without feeling brighter and
better for it. The genial doctor never
practiced medicine, yet he did more to
relieve human suffering than many
pra.ticing physicians. His presence
was a tonic; it was a perpetual de-
light to be near him.
Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1902-03-20
Nothing to Support His Dignity.

Among the peers who have inherited
barren titles is the young earl of Sea-
field, who at the age of IL succeeded
baronies, without so much single
acre of land to maintain his dignities.
N. Y. Sun.
Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1902-03-20
A Preliminary TIP.

PFelimInary TIN.
Edgar-Eleanor, dear, you are such vi
vacious young woman that I'm afraid
shan't be able to make you obey.
Eleanor-Well, Edgar, perhaps you would
be wiser not to try.-Detroit Free Press.
Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1902-03-20

Marriage is often successful coeduca
tional institution. Chicago journal.
Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1902-03-20
MICHAEL O'I7ALLERAM

If you do not derive prompt and
Peruna write at once to DIR. Hartman,
giving full statement of your case,
and he will be pleased to give you his
valuable advice gratis.
Address DR.. Hartman, President OF
the Hartman Sanitarium, Columbus,
Ohio.
Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1902-03-20
Officer A. C. Swanson writes from
COZ Harrison street, Council Bluffs,

Gas my duties
compelled me to be
out In all kinds of
WeafherIcOnfracted
severe cold fro m
time to time, which
settled In the kid
neys, ca u s ing
. severe pains and
: trouble In the pelvic
organs.
clam now like q
new man, am In
nA rrS,,o eff np9Sc0 IN
Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1902-03-20

ssk~0sS ~ OSbS WV
them tried Peruna,
and found the fin
est remedy for q
cold that q man
would want.
"Since then we
have used 1t for
colds, cafarrh, In
Nuenza and other
complaints follow
ing in the wake of
Indictment weather;
and we all feel we'll
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-10-25
NAVAL PERSONNEL
ACT IS A FAILURE
Enaineer-in-Chie Melville Declares
That 1t Has Proved just
This.

WASHINGTON, D. c., Oct. 24.-The
annual report to the secretary Of the
navy of Engineer-in-Chief George Mel
vile is of unusual interest this year.
Mr.. Melville says that the personnel act
has proved to be a failure as it is adj
ministered, and he declares that one
half Of the officers of the navy have
yet to be convinced of the benefits Of
amalgamation. To use his own words,
in referring to the personnel act, ut
was rather a revolution than progress
sion in naval development when con-
gress enacted a law whereby every
naval officer of the line had in the fu-
ture to become a fighting engineer"
The proposed use of petroleum as a
substitute for coal on shipboard is
treated at length. The report says:
1.-The more this question is investi-
gated the more intricate seems the
problem of successfully installing an
oil fuel appliance on board a battle
ship. 1t ought to be successfully Used
on the torpedo boats as well as upon
auxiliary naval vessels that steam be-
tween regular ports. FOR the army
transport service it might prove very
desirable, since a supply of oil could
be maintained at the several calling
ports. In view of the results already
secured by the liquid fuel board an
installation should be effected without
delay on at least a third Of the torpedo
boats and destroyers."
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-10-25
TIME FOR THE BIENNIAL SCARE.

In a few days the time will have ar
rived for the Republican daily or
gans of the Twin Cities to make their
celebrated grand stand play in red ink
and front page b~roadside, telling the
public how the. world will come to an
end and the sun and moon turn to
green cheese if Minnesota goes DEM
ocratic.
IL the 81 lumber tax is taken off pine
stumpage, out goes the light of prov1-
dence and prosperity.
If the tariff is to be revised by any
one except the benefciaries, capital and
labor must wear sackcloth and ashes.
If the sugar trust and the steel trust
consumption, every barn and pig pen
will go into mourning.
If Van SAINT is made to pay taxes on
his steamboats,, or if Tom Lowry has
to pay taxes on his franchises like a
common farmer on his horse team, cap
ital will be driven from the state and a
Sahara desert will sit in the lap of our
gardens of plenty.
If a Democratic congressional dele
cation should usher in reciprocity with
Canada, Tom Shevlin will pull up his
pine trees and walk out of the state,
leaving it to desolation and oblivion.
If Rosing should be elected and levy
a tax upon incomes and franchises in
lieu of part of the tax burden upon in
dustry and trade, the heavens will fall
and the phosphoric pit rise up and
petition for a return of Van SAINT from
Iowa.
All this and more will be pictured on
the front pages of u desperate con-
temporaries in a few days, and nothing
will do Justice to the case except red
ink-the fewer the facts the redder
the ink.
Voters therefore must be prepared
to be red-inked in Fourth of July
rhetoric all about how HEAVIER is run
on G.. O.. P. tariff-and-trust protection
principles applied by Mark Hanna, n
they must wear long faces and never
crack a smile. For without this bien-
NAL red-ink edition the Republican ma
chine of this state would not know how
to run a campaign.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-10-25
HIS LOVE FOR THE LADIES.

Gov. Van. SAINT never fails in the
course of a speech to express his pro-
found affection and veneration for the
ladies. But they say actions at times
speak more expressly than language;
and this seems to be a cas- in point.
Perhaps the governor is not ware
that the women of Minnesota, Besides
being susceptible to fattery, are sub
ject to taxation.
The governor may be interested to
learn that, while he is escaping his
steamboat taxes by hard steaming in
the month Of May, 111,593 Of the pa
triotic women of Minnesota are paying
taxes on their sewing machines.
The governor may be surprised to
learn that the dear ladies in upwards
of $4,000 homes are paying taxes OF
their pianos and organs in order to
help support the state government and
pay his salary--while he is hurrying
his fleet downward.
Now, governor, assuming that o
are earnest in your professions of af-
lection for the women of Minnesota,
would it not be more gallant on your
part and al stronger evidence of that
affection, if you paid your part of the
tax burden for the support of state in
stitutions, instead of throwing an ad-
%ditionally heavy burden of taxation
on the dear ladies to make up the
deficiency caused by your tax lodging?
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-10-25
REDUCING THE ARMY
TO THE
Long Expected Order Is Finally Put
Forth by the War Depart
ment.

WASHINGTON, D. c., Oct. PA
general order to the army was issued
today announcing that the organization
of enlisted strength of h army under
the reorganization act of February 2,
1901, shall be reduced to $3.50, the
minimum authorized by law. Under
this order the various arms Of the
army will be reorganized as follows:
Infantry companies, 6S; coast ar
tillery companies, 100; field artillery
batteries, 100; two siege batteries, 16
each; cavalry troops, IS; engineer COM
panies, 104, except that of service
schools at Forts Leavenworth and
Riley. The cavalry troops are allowed
855 enlisted men and the infantry COM
panies 100 men.
These reductions are to be effected
by casualties as they occur, through ex-
piration of service, etc., or by transfers.
of men hereafter directed, so thai req
cruiting, especially for artillery and
engineers, will be confined to the re-
enlistment of deserving soldiers who
apply within three months of date of
discharge, or such other enlistments
as may be specially authorized.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-10-25

such as the adjustment of the IL III
tax, and the placing of the CONNER
cial laws and regulations of the m
pire on a basis of equality with ref
erenea to the several foreign nations,
will now find practical fulfillment by
the removal of foreign troops, n the
restoration of normal conditions.
1t is not encouraging to the friends
Of Chinese liberty and progress that
such little Roadway should have been
made thus far in the adoption of n
lightened commercial methods. But
then the conservatism of the centuries
it is that is being aSsailed, n the
forces which have acted most strongly
in the molding of national destiny n
character are not to be revolutionized
in a single generation.
The forces of civilization have
wrought a great gain for China. And
of all those forces none has acted as
be%nefcently as the influence OF this
young nation on the policies OF the
older ones. There can be no effective
denial that American influence was the
strongest power operating to prevent
the ACKNOWLEDGMENT of the Chinese
empire as the result of the out
RACES. It is true that the fears n
iealousies Of the European nations
was q vital factor in the peaceful ad-
justment finally reached. But 1t IS
highly probable that had the united
States not found it necessary to inter-
vene. a means would have been found
for rcconcilirg the conflicting inter-
ests Of the European powers.
The partition of Africa among the
European powers is now complete.
The civilization of Africa is as old as
that of Asia, even though the natives
Of the one continent had sunk lower
in the scale of enlightenment than
those of the other continent. What a
befallen the land of the Pharoahs
might well have come upon the Chl-
nese empire were there no friendly ma
tiOpal hand reacneQ out 10 save " lily
Chinese people the control of their own
national destlnies.
The sequel to the evacuation OF
Shanghai and the other cities OF
China will settle the question as to
whether the Chinese people will ever
regain complete control of their own
national interests. The race has the
genius for trade and barter. The pres
ert dynasty cannot last long, AS lone
as it lasts it will constitute a ball and
chain on the energies Of the nation.
But if the nation itself really seeks
the rebuilding of Chinese trade and
civilization, as that work has been &C
complishcd by Japan, no n dynasty
will stand in the path of the progress
of the Chinese people, and the carving
Of their territory will have been made
i'm possible in the future.
With the opening of the great Yang
tse valley to the trade of the world
the question will soon settle itself,
whether OF not the Chinese, like the
Egyptian, is G. doomed race.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-10-25
JOHN LIND FOR SPEAKER.

With predictions of the election of a
Democratic congress and a Democratic
sweep for Minnesota, Hon.. Charles A.
Towne names John Lind as the speak
Ell of the next house of congress.
The suggestion is excellent.
Why not Lind for speaker?
Surely few men in the United States
have a Better intellectual equipment
for the position and none has a bet
ter grasp Of the conservative and
progressive needs of the nation on con-
gressional issues, than John Lind.
On reciprocity with Cuba and with
Canada, ie President Roosevelt still
adheres to the reciprocity with III
American neighbors, John Lind as
speaker of a Democratic house would
lend substantial aid, whereas the Min
nesota Republican delegation have
been the presidents most obstinate
and Industrious opponents.
Under the speakerShip of Lind,
therefore, the next congress would be
in a way to make progress toward
commercial expansion north into Can
ada and east into Cuba, whereas in
the past two years of Republican ma
j~orities there has been nothing but OBJ
struction insthe interest of a petty beet
sugar combine.
John Lind for speaker" is the right
slogan for the Minnesota congression-
al campaign from now on to Nov. 4
and LITTER.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-10-25
A STUDY IN STATE TAXES.

AS a member of the state board of
equalization appointed by him, Gov.
S. r. Van SAINT, captain and manager
of the Van SAINT steamboat fleet, voted
to increase the assessed valuation of
schedule 15-steamboats, sailing YES
sells, barges or other watercraft-25
per cent in Lake county, SO per cent
in Polk county and so per cent in Cass
and Douglas counties, at the same
time that he was not assessed one red
is worth perhaps more than all of the
watercraft of the counties above named
combined.
For colossal bluff and nerve, this case
of Van SAINT takes the premium.
What the governors course of rea-
soning on this subject may have been
as he sat at the sessions of the state
board, it is difficult for a layman to
conjecture.
1t is possible he may have pursued a
train of thought as follows: "Well, if
LllOSS lG1lOWS WALL bOoSo "" SAS X
lakes cannot float them down the Mis-
sissippi into Iowa and escap the as
SCISSOR, why that is their misfortune,
and not my fault. And if l a steam
out of the way into another state, why
that is my good fortune, o know;
and they nave nothing to say about
that. They would do it, too, if they
got a chance!"
Either the governor thought along
some such line, or he never stopped to
consider that he had n duties to
the state of Minnesota as a taxpayer
at all. Perhaps he had gotten so in
the habit of floating out of reach OF
local assessors thai he simply looked
upon that as a part of the steamboat
business.
But the conscientious taXpayer-and
there are such in this great common
wealth, numerous exceptions to the
contrary-has a right to ponder upon
this picture of the governor of a great
Observation-Disclosures state" lodging the
taxes Of the state he has sworn to sup
port and protect, and wonder if the
tax system of his commonwealth is in
the most wise, loyal and patriotic
hands.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-10-25
FIRST SIGN OF WISDOM.

The first symptom of wisdom dis
played by the Republican committee
Of the Van SAINT campaign is when
they pulled the governor off of his
Crookston appointment for tonight.
Leonard a. Rosing was billed for
Crookston by the Democrats.
He speaks there tonight, as like
wise John Lind, in alternate halls.
Tonight Will be a gala Democratic
event in the Red river valley for Ros-
ing and Lind and the entire state and
local Democratic ticket.
Coy. Van SAINT was billed there for
tonight, and the announcements have
been out for his meeting for something
like a week. Wisely the governor will
not he there. His committee has can
celed his date.
That is the one piece of campaign