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The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1903-02-05
Beautiful Tree Snakes.

Among the most attractive Of the
many kinds of serpents are the delicate
and beautiful tree snakes (dendrophis),
which very rarely descend to the
ground, as they find food enough among
the birds and those frogs and lizards
which also dwell in trees. The grace
full form of the body, the elegance and
rapidity of their movements and tho
exquisite beauty of their colors have
excited the lively admiration Of those
who have had the good fortune to
watch them in their native haunts. The
larger kinds attain to length Of over
five feet. They are frequently adorned
with theAbrightest coiors, green being.
however. generally the prevailing tint.
They are active by day.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1903-02-05
His Awful Curiosity.

A woman with her little son, child
of four years of age, inquired of a man
standing in one of our railroad stations,
"Can you tell me what time the next
train leaves for Scrantony''
"At t-t-wenty m-m-inutes p-p-past
flour" About five minutes later she
again put the same question to. the
same man, and he repeated the same
answer in the same suffering way.
When She approached him for the third
time with the same query, he said to
her: "W-why do y-y-you a-a-ask me
$3.50 m-m-many t-t-times? II a-a-al-
ready t-t-told you t-t-twice."
81 know you did," replied the wo-
man, "but my little boy likes to see
you work your mouth Philadelphia
Ledger.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1903-02-05
saw the whole Of 1t.

Alexander weeping because the world
was SO small has counterpart in an
old inhabitant Of Luss, pretty little
village on Loeb Lomond side, Scotland
who at last has been persuaded to
climb the mountain which has filled SO
large part Of his horizon all the days
Of his life. In Luss he has lived, as his
fathers lived before him. and from
Luss he has never had the ambition to
journey, even as far as Glasgow. But
some one got him to the top Of Ben 10.
mond the other day.
'Eh. mon," said he, with great self
congratulation, '.but the worlds big
place when ye come to view the whole
Of it!''
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1903-02-05
LOCATING JOHN.

The Fate Of . Tiger Hunter and His
Return Home.
A story is told Of young man
named John p, who, being in poor
health, went to India. His family had
instructed him not to spare expense,
but to cable three times week how
he was and what he was doing. The
first cable message ran:
Am well. Have native guide. Inja.
Hunt tigers tomorrow.
The next communication did not ar
rive till two weeks later. It was this:
John dead. Killed. Tiger. What do!
INA.
Back went the fearful message: :
Send on body.
A month later there was delivered to
the keeper Of the receiving vault Of NJ.
cemetery box or coffin so large and
heavy that 1t might have been the
home Of second Cardiff Giant. Sus-
picion having been aroused, a permit
was secured and the sealed coffin
opened. 70 the CONSERVATION Of those
present there lay the body Of a magnif-
icent Bengal tiger resting on white
satin. The following message was soon
racing across the Atlantic:
Some mistake. Some mistake. You
send tiger. Where Is John?
The following information was soon
received: u --s
so mistake :: .::-..alse John inside
r 4 I
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1903-02-05
still Useful.

'tYes, poor old sport, when he had
money he had good time, but he went
broke"
''Then starved?'
81 should say not. He secured a
splendid position in a swell boarding
house."
''What doing?"
"Just has to sit around in the board
ing house parlor posing as the star
boarder, meanwhile complaining loudly
before prospective boarders about the
bad case of govt contracted there
Baltimore Herald.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1903-02-05
Not to BE Endured.

''Deah boy. is it true that you have
discharged your valet?''
''Ya-as, the scoundrel! When took
him out with me, he managed to make
people think he was the mastah and
was herman, baw Jove!''- Exchange.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1903-02-05
Realistic

Realistic.
Hell had a realistic dream last night
She-Indeed! What was it?
ooh. l dreamed had proposed to
you and you had turned me over to
your father"
Eyes, yes. And what did father say ;"
"Oh. I don't know. only know l
woke up and found myself on the
fioor."-Yonkers Statesman.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1903-02-05
Love Superstition

In parts Of Massachusetts, it IL
thought that II girl puts a piece Of
southern wood down her back the first
boy she meets will be her husband. In
Boston, If manageable woman puts
Q bit of southern wood under her pill
low on retiring, the first man she sees
In the morning will, so says the super
stition. be the one whom she is to mar
~.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1903-02-05
Helping the Batter.

Mistress lin surprise) Why did you
place the alarm clock by the buck
wheat batter?
Nora So it would know what time
10 rise. mum.-Ch Chicago News.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1903-02-05
The Question.

II have q perfect horror Of marrying
= poor man and living in small way"
But, darling, shall grow
All, but will you develop financially
as fast as ! develop in social ambition?''
Life.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1903-02-05
Nearly Forfe1ts His Life.

A runaway almost ending fatally,
started a horrible ulcer on the leg Of
J. B. Orner, Franklin Grove, Ill. Fol
four years it defiled all doctors and all
remedies. But Bucklen's Arnica
Salve had no trouble to cure him.
Equally good for Burns, Bruises,
Skin Eruptions and Piles. 25c at III.
H. Bateman's Drug Store.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1903-02-05
IN No Hurry.

Flibbert-Your rich uncle says he
wants to be cremated.
Gangleigh-Yes, but he is in no hurry
about It Boston Transcript.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1903-02-05

AnO 6VvOSAAn VOAy W Guy L
such city, village or county may
remit the tax or license feel
where it is deemed that the
articles to be sold are Of an
educational nature or where the
party making application is in
capacitated for manual labor.
Section 5. Any person VIC
lating any Of the provisions of
this act shall be deemed guilty
of a misdemeanor, and upon con-
viction thereof shall be punished
for each offense by fine, not ex-
ceeding $4,000, or by imprison-
ment in the county jail not ex-
ceeding ninety (90) days. or by
both such fine and Imprisonment
and thepersonactually in charge
of any such goods, wares, mer-
chandise or other personal pro
perty, and violating any Of the
provisions of this act; whether
he be an owner of the goods sold,
carried or offered for sale by
him or not, shall be deemed
guilty of a misdemeanor and
shall be punished as above pro-
vided; and if any such person
fails or refuses to exhibit his
certificate or license to any per-
son requiring view of the same,
he shall be presumed to have
none, and if he shall then pro-
duce a license or certificate after
proceedings shall have been
com menced for violation of
this act, such person shall pay
all costs of prosecution; and in
all prosecutions for a violation of
this act, proof that the stock of
goods. from which sales may
have been made, or that the
capital invested in such stock
has not been assessed for tax
alton during that year within
any such city, village or county
wherein the same have been
sold or offered for sale, shall be
prima facia evidence that the
same has not been listed or as
sessed for taxation.
Section 6. Nothing herein
contained shall be so construed
as toimpair or infringe any ex-
listing right or authority of cities
towns and villages to. license and
regulate peddlers within their
limits.
Section z. All acts or parts
of acts inconsistent herewith are
hereby repealed.
Section. 8. Whereas, an
emergency exists requiring that
this act take effect Immediately,
in that there is no valid enact
ment now in force covering the
provisions here incontained, this
act shall take effect and be in
force from and after it's passage
and approval.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1903-02-05

The price paid to quiet conscience
Keeps mighty few people poor Chica-
80 News.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-07-25
fright, 1908.
lV-HoW OLGA SAVED HER HUSBAND.

lV-HoW OLGA SAVED HER HUSBAND.
MAN had disappeared from Moscow. He had
disappeared like many others had disappeared
\ he left trace behind him. He was a mer-
v chant of repute, his Georges Kavski,
His wife, Olga, besought her friends and en-
to el,1cida
The sun., 1903-11-11
Venice.

The pleasant memories that every one
carries away from Venice will secure a
welcome to handsome holiday book
gotten up by j. M. Dent 4 Co., Venice and
It's Story" by Thomas Okey (Macmil-
lans) The book is illustrated very elab-
orately, there being ia pages OF pictures,
apart from those in the text, to $50 pages
Of letter press Mr., Okey repeats the story
Of the Venetian Republic in a pleasant
way, taking care not to leave out the ro-
mantle episodes; he then describes the
artists of Venice and winds up with a sort
Of artistic guide to the sights. He makes
no pretence to original research, but has
consulted the best authorities in construct
ing his story.
1t is the pictures, however, that form
the special attraction Of the book Those
in black and white, Of buildings and archi-
teotural details by Nelly Erichsen are very
good. The Photographic reproductions Of
famous paintings are well selected. We
are not so much impressed by the fifty
colored illustrations by o. F. NJ. Ward
and W. X. Hipchliff, They are pretty
watercolors Of scenes chosen at random,
apparently, and the prettiness is that Of the
old time chromos. Those signed with Mr.
Hinchliffs initials have a good deal more
character than the others. They are pict-
ures of Venice, however, and that in itself
will make them pleasing TO the readers.
The sun., 1903-11-11
NEW hooks.
Mrs. WhartOn's Latest Story.

Once tgain, in Sanctuary Charles
Soribner's Sons) Mrs. Edith Wharton re-
turns to the field where her talent shows to
best advantage. the presentation Of delicate
points OF moral or social casuistry. We
have regretted her deviation into anti
quarian Italian themes, for 1t kept her
from doing what she can do admirably.
Sanctuary Is the story Of woman's con-
science and affections twice racked in a
matter Of honor, by her future husband
and by her son. The first problem set is
not so ingenious as we should like The
persons described are not mere society
puppets, but gentlemen and ladies', and the
misdeed Is too serious for them to gloss
over. The description OF the young girls
state Of mind is very artistic and perhaps
it was necessary to thicken the lines in the
case Of the others In order to bring out the
full effect.
The second part is much the better, we
could almost wish that 1t had been pub
lished separately. There too, however,
the situation does not seem to be quite
true. The temptation the young man falls
into may be natural enough, but 1t is a little
difficult to see how the son of such mother,
brought up as the author describes, could
have been tempted at all. Both son and
mother are admirable. Ms. Wharton still
has inclinations to overlite.ary words and
to smart sayings, but she keeps them down
very well. The second part Of Sanctuary
we are inclined to think, Is the best piece
OF writing she has published so far.
The sun., 1903-11-11
And Shall Trela wney Die:

Fame plays strange tricks with come
men. They may write a famous song Or
book, stories may be told about them that
spread around the world and yet their
names may remain completely hidden.
That has been the fate Of the Rev. r.
Havker Vicar of Morwenstow, whose prose
articles are reprinted by John Lane under
the original title Footprints Of Former
Men in Far Cornwall" Mr.. Hawker hap
pens TO be also the author Of many good
poems, one Of which is "The Song OF the
Western Men"
And have they fx'd the where and when'
And shall Trelawncy die'
Here's twenty thousand Cornishmen
VIII know the reason why
Plenty OF stories have appeared in print
of his pecuiarities and his sayings, but In
them he is usually disguised as the Vicar OF
Morwenstow. MIR. Hawker's prose articles
are collected in this volume. 1t Ia herd
TO define them: they contain stories OF the
Cornish land and people, they contain bril-
liant descriptions of scenery and quaint
antiquarian lore and they are written IN
the delightful English of the beginning OF
the nineteenth century. A very enter
tanning book AND well illustrated
The sun., 1903-11-11
Julian Ralph on Newspaper Work.

1t Is not an autobiography that we find
in -The Making Of a Journalist" by Julian
Ralph CHarpers), though it contains many
personal and journalistic "reminiscences
and is written in the first person. but a
number OF papers about newspaper life
and newspaper work that he wrote for
various magazines and newspapers in
the last few years Of his life. In all
these articles Mr.. Ralph was telling the
public what he knew Of his profession.
He naturally drew his illustrations and
anecdotes chiefly from his own experience,
30 that the book Is thoroughly personal
and gives a picture Of Ralph's life as a
journalist, though there is no hint Of the
facts of his career or his private life. There
is no word OF introduction to give men an
outline of career that was interesting in
many ways % to explain bow the articles
came to be put together.
Julian Ralph's oheerfulness, the genial
kindness that attracted men to him, his
remarkable gift Of treating even wornout
subjects with the freshness and delight OF
a first discoverer, all show in these pages.
They bear the marks OF haste, for all his
work was done at railroad speed, his anec-
dotes are rarely quite accurate, but they
are true in the main and serve the purpose
Of illustrating the point the author is making
at the time. His optimism allowed him to
boast: 1T is said that In New York, at
least, have been peculiar in possessing the
physique is perhaps the greatest requisite
to carry out tasks neceesitating the nearest
approach to an imitation of ub!quitousness,
and resulting in from seven to ten columns
OF solid writing for the next days paper.
He never hesitated to strain that physique
to the utmost or to take upon himself work,
however crushing, and he fell in the ranks
before he was fifty. In him was lost brilliant
newspaper man. full Of Ideas, and thor
oughly good fellow.
The sun., 1903-11-11
ATTACKED BY FOUR ROBDERS.
Town Policeman OF Mcrrimac Locked In
Jail and Post Cfficc Plundercd.

MERR1MAc, Mass, Nov. l0.-Four rob-
bers overpowered the sole policeman of
the town early this morning, handcutfed
him with his own handouts and then locked
him in the town Jail. With the police
man helpless, the robbers looted the post
Office. The heaviest loser is Mrs. Elizabeth
w. Smart, postmistress. Through the
damage to safe and building it will cost
her 81 900. The Government loses little.
The night polise force consists OF Atwood
Nixon. At $50 o'clock this morning, as
Nixon was making his leisurely rounds,
fomr men jumped at him and knocked him
down. Before he had tine to shout or
struggle he was fastened with his own
bandcufYs. His watch and S2G in money
we're Ia zen t hen he was walked to the lookup
in the basement Of the town hall and
The next man to meet the robbers was
Night Watchman Quimby at the street car
bower house. He heard the sound OF an
explosion. Walking up the hill leading to
the square, he met the four robbers, who
leyeled revolvers at him and said they would
shoot him IL he did not go bao to the power
house. He went, but sounded the fire
alarm as soon as he got there. The last he
saw OF the robbers they were running back
through the square.
The sun., 1903-11-11

versity, with the title 'The Great Poets Of
Italy Houghton, Mih1in & Coz. We
imagine that It will be received with favor
by the special class Of persons for whom IL
has been prepared. The greater part Of
the book is taken up with the four great
poets, Dante. Petrarch. Ariosto and Tasso,
with English translations from their works.
It is not out Of place to add to them Alheri
and Leopardi but the dragging In OF living
poets where 80 many reputable and far more
deserving dead are omitted Is rather alb
surd. No great taste is shown In the selec-
tions. Prof Kuhns, by the way, labors
under the delusion that Gabrielle d'Annun-
zio, psoudonym, has something to do
with the Annunciation. In southern Italy
D'Annunzo is as common name as Thomp-
SON. The writer has insolence enough Of
his own to be spared fictitious additions.
The sun., 1903-11-11
Fairy Tales.

Christmas is coming and with it the usual
output of children's books. We are thank
ful that 1t cannot compare with the flood OF
grownup fiction in volume but the pile of
books growing before lis is enough to terrify
the reviewer. First among them In inter-
est, and they should be also first to 60 into
the Christmas stocking, are the fairy books.
Mr.. Andrew Lang, who is gradually ex-
hausting the palette, edits this year
"The Crimson Fairy Book Uongmans,
Green Il Coz. His hunting ground, as
usual, is the German folklore publications,
and he has had the luck this time to run
across number Of tales and variants that
are really new. This makes the Crimson"
q worthy companion of the Red" and the
Blue fairy books. The hard work, as
usual, has been done by his wife. Mr..
Lang's labor, as we understand 1t. being
limited to the selection, while she does the
translating. His self-conscious, egotistical
preface seems, therefore, in very bad taste,
but luckily children do not read the pref
aces to their fairy books. The pictures
are very good.
From Dodd, Mead 4 Co. comes .The
Golden Rod Fairy Book put together
by Esther Singleton. 1t contains chiefly
printed over and over again, and is dis
tinguished by colored borders in golden
rod designs, which, we fancy, will appeal
more to parents than to children. This
applies, too, to Mr.. C. B. Fells's pictures
in colors. Still the volume presents the
stories in an attractive form, and as long
as tho children get them they are not likely
to be particular.
In large type on large page, its chief
recommendation, comes THE Outlook Fairy
Book for Little People," by Laura Win
nington (The Outlook Company. The
search for novelty has led the editor, per-
haps, beyond the verge Of fairyland for
the fairy tales Of modern authors are not
the same as the old authorizes fairy tales
that have passed on from mouth to mouth.
The editor draws from Leander, and Jean
Mace and from Hans Christian Andersen,
who is on the border line. The pictures
miss the fairy spirit completely.
OF books where the author writes his own
stories, we have "The Dew-Babies," by
Helen Broadbent (Hutchins on Il Co.; Z. P.
Dutton 4 Coz. 1t recalls the title Of Charles
Kingsley fairy book, and may suit the
infantile palate surfeited with the same
old stories
From Chicago comes to us 1The Star
Fairies by Edith Ogden Harrison "a. c.
McClurg & Coz, an excursion into fairy
land that, we fear, youth will find more
didactic than adventurous. An enclosed
slip informs us that the author is Mrs.
Carter Harrison. The reader will therefore.
make allowances for the difficulties under
which these imaginative stories were written.
The colored pictures are not bad.
Robin Hood hardly belongs to fairyland,
but youth is not severe in it's distinctions
and would probably let him and even
Robinson Crusoe in, The story Of his ad-
ventures is told with the utmost of pro-
priety in Robin Hood, His Book by Eva
March Tappan Q4ittle, Brown 4 Coz. 1t is
illustrated with weird drawings under
Beardsley influences, we should say, by
Charlotte Harding.
The sun., 1903-11-11
Mr., Kobbe,s Holiday Book.

Some books are made solely to sell, and
that we fear is the case with Mr.. Gustav
Kobbe's Famous Actors and Actresses and
Their Homes Q4ttle, Brown 4 Coz. The
flimsiest Of newspaper articles with the
mildest of gossip, the papers might serve
to float illustrations, but with a few ex-
ceptions the pictures are too small to be
Of any service. Illustrated Journals have
raised the publio's standard Of size, II not
of taste, as regards portraits Of actors. Mr..
Kobbe's flock includes Maude Adams.
Ethel Barrymore, Julia Marlowe, Annie
Russell E. H. Sothern and his wife, John
Drew, William Gillette. Richard Mansfield
and Francis Wilson. OF all he speaks in
laudatory terms. He also describes the two
actors clubs OF New York
The sun., 1903-11-11
CHARLES T, YERKES RETURNS.
HIS VIEWS on UNDERGROCND
RAILWAYS AND ELECTIONS.
BIames the Fusionists for Raising His
Taxes-Mr. and Mrs. Bradley Martin
Among the Other Passengers on the
Kaiser Wilhelm E,-Singers Arrive.

Among the Other Passengers on the
Kaiser Wilhelm E,-Singers Arrive.
Charles T. Yerkes, managing director OF
the company building the London UNDER
ground railroads, arrived yesterday by the
North German Lloyd steamship Kaiser
wilhelm H., with budget Of comments
on many things.
"We have all the money necessary to
complete the London underground roads.
he said. "One half of them will be In oper-
alton within a year. The disaster In the
Paris tunnel did not cause us to change our
plans. They were so nearly perfect origi-
nally that other tunnel builders have taken
infianInable and there isn't the remotest
chance OF anything like the Paris misfor-
tune occurring In London. Our stock is
not listed, but will be next year The
shareholders, bought the stock with the
next year.
II am not surprised at the trouble in the
shipbuileling combination. ! expected that
it would come TO the end 1t has reached.
MY plan has been always to avoid such
combinations.
Il see the reformers-fusionists you call
theni-have been defeated by Tammany.
l think the refor,ners made a mnddle OF II.
Suppose they did clean up the Tenderloin
and suppose they did suppress gambling;
per cent We addressing the reporters
don't frequent the Tenderloin; but why
should we be made to pay to prevent others
from going there? When a mans taxes
are raised SC, per cent, he is going to kick
and kick hard.
sAs to the trouble In Panama. l have
wondered whether the United States Of
fered Colombia enough; also, why our
Government didn't build the canal long ago.
It looks now as if we were going to have it
Other passengers by the Kaiser Wilhelm
II. we're Count Cassini, Russian Ambas-
sador to the United States; Baron Won Hen
gelmuller, the Austrian Ambassadori the
oet oeeTaA Antos VAN as Rooy pol Pancon and
Antonio Scotti; United States Senator elect
Francis G.. Newlands Of Nevada, Mr. and
Mrs Bradley Martin and Bradley Martin,
Jr; f. r, Bacon, the Countess Freda Clarion
d'Haussonville, the Marquis de 1raha-
dello d'Arroara. tenor, who was the teacher
of Emma Eames and who will sing In con-
certs here under the patronage Of Mrs.
Astor and other well known women;
Mrs j. W. Maokay, A.. zengeler,
architect for the German Government;
Frederick Townsend Martin, the Countess
Mr. and Mrs. Adolphus Busch, Naval Con-
struotor Robert Zimmerman, who super
intended the building of the Kaiser Will
helm H.; George w. Sessions, Charles n.
Steinway, Mrs c. Gray Dinsmore, j. L. Mott,
Capt. Heinrich Niemeyer and Count Divor
Szapary.
The Earl of Denbigh, commander Of
the Honourable Artillery Of Lon
don, has booked passage on the White
The sun., 1903-11-11
On the Edge OF the Desert.

A very delightful account OF the Cali
fornia desert has been written by Mrs.
Mary Austin in "The Land Of Little Rain
Houghton. Mifflin Il Coz. There are
descriptions Of nature and Of people, there
are incidents that come pretty near to
being stories, and there Is throughout a
breath Of out-of-doors which is refreshing
and which makes the reader pardon some
realism that is rather close to savagery
The pictures, by Mr.. E. Boyd Smith. are real
illustrations, the most charming and ar
tistic we have seen in many long day.