The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1903-05-07
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

Less than half the children in the
public schools attend Sunday school.
Rev. Charles A. Trotman, pastor of
the Church of the Redeemer, st. Louis,
is also practicing physician. having
regular Office hours during the week.
After an interval of 365 years new
Roman Catholic abbot has been in
stalled at the abbey of Buckfastleigh,
Devon, England. The ancient monas-
terry, now reestablished, was sup
pressed in 1888.
A medal has been struck by the Ger
man Samaritan union III honor of Prof.
Won Esmarch's eithtieth birthday. This
medal will be awarded to those who
have distinguished themselves in the
service of the sick.
In the school for the blind ut Lisbon
there has been established new kind
of industry which will prove most re-
munerative to the inmates. 1t consists
in unraveling or picking" vegetable
fibers used as stuffing material for
furniture, beds, etc.
The minister of fine arts in Paris, M.
Leagues, is at last about to sign de-
cree admitting women students in the
school of fine arts to compete for the
Grand Prix de Rome. There are now
seven women studying painting, one
architecture and eight sculpture.
Rev. Charles NJ. Sheldon. of Topeka,
Kan. says that after he had married a
couple not long ago, the bridegroom
fumbled in his pockets nervously with
out producing anything and finally adj
mitted that he had neglected to pro-
vide for the clergyman's fee. "But,"
he added, Frightening up, II can show
you how to fix your gas meter so that
it won't register"
The physical director ut Yale COL
lege has measured all students enter
ing in the last nine years. The nom
smokers average Is months younger
than the smokers, are taller, and during
the four years in school gain "a per
cent. more in height and 26.7 per cent.
more in chest growth than do habitu-
al users of tobacco.
The Syrian Protestant college at
Beirut. an American nonsectarian in
stitution has 627 students in medicine,
pharmacy. commerce. arts and archae-
ology. Twenty-eight of the As profess
ors are Americans, and English is the
principal medium of instruction. The
institution wishes samples of American
manufactures and COMMERCIAL litera-
ture. It's students come from Turkey,
Greece, Persia, Egypt and the soudan.
One-client Lawyers.
The poverty of briefess barristers is
as proverbial as that of the church
mouse. 1t would not be an unnatural
mistake to consider barrister with
only one client hardly better off than
one with none. But the modern cone
client lawyer" is usually a prosperous
individual. Said man well known in
the business world some years ago to a
friend: II want young lawyer to put
down at a desk beside mine. I'll famil-
iarize him with my affairs, and then I
want him to keep me out of trouble"
The counterpart of this lawyer, whose
duty it is to act as his own clients
ounce of prevention, may be found in
the office Of many large concerns. He
is often connected with trust COM
panies, banks, banking houses, rail
road and other transportation COM
panies and large wholesale mercan-
tile houses. When a merchant found
himself in tangle, it was once the
custom for him to go to his lawyer for
advice. The results were a written
''opinion" and fee. The business man
to-day has lawyer who shall work
for him alone. Again, the field of the
general practitioner is narrowed
Worlds Work.
Conclusive Evidence.
"They weren't playing golf," said the
wise caddy; ''they were making love-"
"They did stay at the other end of the
links pretty long time"
''Oh, it amt that"
''What is it, then?"
"They wouldn't take caddy along,
an they never lost ball."-Chicago
Post.