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The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1903-05-14
HUMOROUS.

He Would Think It.-Miss Oldgirl-
what would you say if were to tell
you was only 24?" Mr.. Caller
DOWN. don't know. ] wouldn't like
to call lady liar, but-"-Detroit
Free Press.
Emotionalism-" You say you have
shed real tears in your acting?" mot
exactly" answered Mr.. Stormington
Barnes; "but have been tempted to
when 1 saw the box Office statements"
-Washington Star.
She-"It's really wonderful how this
part of the world suits old people!
There's my grandfather, he's 60 next
month";" He-"Really! Almost a.
what-d'ye-call-it?-a nonentity, don't
you know!"-Punch.
my dear!" said frightened hus-
band in the middle Of the night, shak-
ing his wife, where did you put that
bottle of strychnine?" ION the shelf
next to the peppermint" "Oh, Lord!"
he groaned. 1--WE swallowed it,"
"Well, for goodness sake" whispered
his wife, keep quiet or you'll wake
the baby Philadelphia Ledger.
Miss Gusch-"Tm sure something
has happened to Clarence-my fiance,
you know. He started for Boston two
days ago, and haven't heard from
him SINCE" Mr.. Brutle-''Why not adj
vertise?" Miss ADVERTISED"
Mr.. Brutle-"Yes; say Lost, fiance;
wore high collar; answers to name of
Clarence or something like that
Philadelphia Press. i
Lawyer-"Madam, it was I who drew
up your late husbands will, and in il
he particularly requested that you
should not marry again, but ="
Widow-"O, dear, Mr.. Saunders; your
kind offer has quite overcome me. but
wouldn't it be more seemly to wait un-
til the period of mourning has expired
before we announce the engagement"
|-Philadelphia Telegram.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1903-05-14
NAY REACH FARMERS
The Industrial Agitation Liable to
Affect the Harvest Fields.
Than ANY Other Employer--Strike
On Great Railroad System Like
Great Northern Affects
All Business.

IT, perchance, . strike should be or
dered on the Great Northern Railroad,
its influence might be much more far
reaching than is generally supposed.
There is already q movement on foot
to inaugurate a plan to apply to farm
labor the system of organization
which is now in force among the
trades and other classes of labor.
Heretofore the farmer has been ex-
empt from labor agitation, but if this
railroad strike should permeate the
Northwest it is very likely its infiu-
ence would extend to the agricultural
districts as well. Hitherto the farmer
has looked on labor agitation with
great complacency, but his own ex-
perience is evidently near at hand.
The farmer, too, is in more helpless
condition than almost any other class
of the community. In the average
strike the man, or company, can tenn
porarhy suspend business and resume
it again when '.the cruel war is over, .
but with the farmer, when his grain
is ready to cut, the work must be
done at once or he loses large per-
centage of his crop, and if long de-
layed loses it entirely. The conse-
quence is when organization reaches
the farm, as it has in the Eastern
states, and demands higher wages and
shorter hours, the farmer will be
powerless and more helpless than any
line Of business which has been con-
fronted with strike.
There is not, in fact, any branch Of
business in the Northwest which
would not be materially injured by
strike on q great railroad system
like the Great Northern, and when
the farmer is reached and gathered
into the voracious nav of labor agita-
ton, there will be little left which or
ganization has not reached-Globe.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1903-05-14
PULPIT AND PEW.

The Rev. H. P. Perkins, of Pao-ting-
fu, reports to the American board Of
foreign missions that there is relig-
ious movement such as has never been
seen before in that field in north
China.
Rev. r. Calvin Dobson, Presbyte-
rian minister of st. Louis, preached a
sermon in the worlds fair grounds on
Sunday to an audience of workmen,
being the first religious services held
on the exposition grounds.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1903-05-14
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

There are 3,s42 temperance societies
among school children in Belgium.
The anniversary Of the emancipa-
ton of 23,OOO,OOO Russian peasants,
liberated by Alexander III. in 1861, is to
be celebrated hereafter in the ortho-
dox churches by elaborate thanksgiv-
ing services instead of by single re-
QUEEN mass.
Edwin S. Robbins, manufacturer
and business man, who has manifold
interests to demand his attention, at,
his home in Greystone, Conn.,, spends
every Sunday evening of his life in adj
dressing religious gatherings in the
particular city where his business
pursuits take him.
Many strange school custom prevail
in China. The girls in that country
seldom go to school unless they are
children Of very rich people. School
work begins before daylight, and after
studying their lessons aloud for two
hours the pupils recite them. They
then go home to breakfast, after
which they return and study again.
Yale has done away with her rule
requiring of men representing the col
lege in athletic, literary or musical
lines that they maintain standing
1875 per cent. higher than that exacted
from other students. Moreover, the
literary men will not be disqualified
for the literary organs of the college
by being under warning for low stand
ing.
There seems to be no end of trouble
growing out of the discussion of the
shortened course, and now that Yale
has SO ordered it's course that man
may finish it in three years has given
rise to the report that three years
course has been adopted, which is not
at all true. One of the new courses at
Yale is on railroads, covering the finan-
cial, industrial and technical sides of
the subject.
Rev. j. w. Kimbrell, of Madison, Mo-,
is gentleman of resources. Bad roads
prevented him few Sundays ago
from keeping his engagement at Por-
ter's chapel, one of the churches on
his itinerary. He bethought himself
that number of his parishioners had
telephones, SO he moved an organ to
the Madison central" office, got
choir and conducted whole church
service by telephone, excepting the
taking up Of the collection.
The railroad farm school," which
the University of Missouri has so sue
cessfully inaugurated .byacarrying the
school to those who could not come to
it, has attracted much attention all
over the country. Farmers in small
towns who cannot otherwise attend
farmers institutes along the railroad
can 60 to the car and hear an inter-
esting series Of lectures, besides hay-
ing the opportunity of viewing the dis
play carried on board. Specimens of
grasses are displayed, and also many
specimens of insects that are injurious
to plants and trees. Lectures are
given on diseases of farm animals, and
altogether the experiment has proved
very successful.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1903-05-14
RAILROAD NEWS AND GOSSIP.

Two locomotives, the largest in Eu-
rope, have just been turned out at
Basic, Switzerland. The boilers are
twice the ordinary size, give force of
1000 horsepower, and speed Of over
rs miles an hour.
Russian experts now declare that
the Manchurian railway traffic is like
" to be often interrupted because the
builders did not sufficiently allow for
meteorological occurrences such a.
typhoons and foundations.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1903-05-14
FIND INDIAN BURIAL GROUND.
IAborers at Fort Riley, Kan, Dig Up
Skeletons With Pottery and
other ReAcs.

Laborers grading in the vicinity Of
the new gun sheds at Fort Riley,
Kan, have sunearthed over dozen
skeletons, probably of Indians, and
many flint hatchets and spearheads,
oddly-shaped pieces of pottery, and
stones probably used for grinding
corn. The bones of the skeletons
are larger than those of the average.
sized man. The relics are thought
to be at least 200 years old. 1t is be-
lieved that the spot was once bury
ing-ground.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1903-05-14
He Was Thoroughly Aroused.

A man in An apparently moribund
condition was recently taken into .
hospital in Melbourne, Australia, and
in order to revive him an electric
shock was administered. The results
were startling and unexpected. A
demoniac energy was instantaneous
" infused. He sent the doctor
sprawling on the floor and flung a
couple of assistants out of the win
dow. Then he proceeded 10 wreck
the ward, while nurses ran away
shrieking and bsrricaded themselves.
He had done $500 worth of damage
before the police arrived.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1903-05-14
DousLE-HEAoERs.

The Attitude Of the Tralnmen Reviewed.
AS rule, of late, railway employees,
trainmen especially, have been pretty
reasonable in their demands upon the
employing companies. The railways
have been enjoying q period of I'M
usual prosperity, and it was not inap-
propriate that the employees should
ask reasonable increase in wages as
their share of the prosperity. For the
most part, railway managers recog-
nized the justice of the demand, and
wage. scales have been raised quite
generally without anything serious in
the way of a strike. A strike is now
threatened on the Great Northern
Railway, which was one of the first
roads to grant a liberal increase in
wages. The strike is now threatened.
not as result of wage disputes, but
over a matter of economy in the rum
ming of train. AS the gravamen of
the, dispute has been presented in the
Minneapolis newspapers, the Great
Northern trainmen are wholly wrong
in their contention and should be able
to count on little popular sympathy if
they make the refusal of their de-
mands the pretext for a strike.
The dispute is over the use of
''double-headers." A ''double-header.' -
in railway parlance, is train to
which two locomotives are attached.
The Great Northern Company desires
to use two locomotives to pull over
the heavy grades trains which on
more level track need only . single
locomotive. The trainmen contend
that when two locomotives are used
two complete train crews must be em-
ployed, or that the single crew shall
receive double pay for the service.
The company. reasonably enough. it
would seem, argues that it has use for
but single train crew and has no
desire to employ more men than are
really needed. 1t argues, however,
that as the use of the extra engine
requires no extra work ON the part
of the crew employed, the company is
not disposed to pay double wages to
that crew.
It is not difficult to see what the
trainmen have in mind. If they can
prevent the company from using
ssdouble-headers'' the company must
run two trains instead of one to get
the same number of cars over heavy
grade. Thus two train crews instead
Of one will be given employment. The
trainmen insist that if the double
header be used the crew employed
shall be paid double wages, so the
railway may not be able to find any
economy in the use of the double
header"
This is clearly case in which the
labor organization is contending
against the logical economy of things.
It is the same old protest against
labor-saving methods which has so
often brought organized labor into
disrepute. The trainmen are insist
ing that the railways shall handle
their transportation of freight in a
more expensive way than modern in
genuity has been able to devise. In
so doing, the trainmen are arguing
against the interest of the railway
and that of the public as well. It's
the right of the railway to transact
its business on the most economical
methods. It is to the interest of the
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1903-05-14
Coming Strikes.
From Sank Rapids Sentinel.

1t is not only the strike upon the
Great Northern Railway System
which is scheduled to occur soon, but
of others, also, that are to occur from
time to time, to accomplish the ends
sought by the high strike authorities,
and by the walking delegates who do
the open work. that we would speak.
To the multitude of common people
who judge by what they see and hear,
it is a cause of wonder and surprise
that an immense body of employees Of
the Great Northern Railway Company
who are being paid all they ask, and
with their families happily located,
and with the most agreeable relations
existing with the company officials,
should permit themselves to be drawn
or voted into serious strike over .
question or point that don't amount
to shucks to them; into contest
likely to cost the employees their posi-
tions, and consequently the loss Of
their homes, which they cannot af-
ford, and on the other hand may cost
the company many millions Of dollars
which it can afford, because all such
losses or burdens will be figured into
the company's expense account to be
paid by the future shippers OH the
line-the ultimate end of all charges,
and in making which payments, the
farmer has the lions share.
But in blissful ignorance of his bur-
densome connection with the exciting
game, very many of the farmers are
constantly sympathizing with the
strikers, mainly because one of the
parties is a corporation.
But passing by this threatened
strike upon the Great Northern Com
spany with its probable bad results
upon the country, it would be we'll for
the farmers and especially the large
farmers of western Minnesota and the
two Dakotas to understand that in
the epidemic of strikes which is upon
the country, those farmers may be- hit
directly as well as indirectly. AS a
prelude to the game that will interest
them, quite number of them during
last wheat harvest season were con-
fronted with the walking delegate
among their harvesting crews who
readily exceeded to demanding an ex.
ira dollar or half dollar per day-a
demand there was no resisting. When
such organized movements cover the
country, and the demands are so ex-
horbitant as to absorb all profit in
the crop, then, the striking business
will not be amusing to farmers nor to
those who depend upon trade with
farmers. It makes difference whose
Ok is being gored. As the epidemic
spreads, the employers of smaller
numbers of men will be threatened
That is not all. When there is adopt
ed system under which those who
have nothing combine against those
who have excessive wealth, the popu-
larity of the thing spreads, and the
ground between those making the
raid to grab what they have not
earned, and those who are compelled
to resist and fight to keep what they
have earned, will become very narrow,
and in short time people of ordi-
nary means may have a struggle to
save themselves from organized plum
der. Old-fashioned law. will be found
in end safer than the combinations OF
today.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1903-05-14
OLD .FoRT BLUNDER."
Strange Mistake Made In
Locating It.

Few people who are told that the
United States once began to build
fort on British soil will know what
the fort is. and where it is located. It
is Fort Montgomery. situated about
half mile northeast of Rouse's Point,
New York, near the foot of Lake Cham
plain, says Youths Companion.
After the war of 1912 the government
of the United States saw the need Of
guarding the entrance to Lake Cham
plain, and began, in 1915, to build Fort
Montgomery. The original design was
to construct great fort for those days,
for it was to carry three tiers of guns.
After work had proceeded for some
time it was discovered that, owing to
an error Of early surveyors, the actual
boundary between Canada and New
York-the forty-fifth parallel of north
latitude-passed south of the fort.
Work on the fort was suspended for
about IS years, and not until 1s42 was
the territory restored TO the United
States. The Observation-Disclosures treaty,
which established the northeastern
boundary, made the line between New
York and Canada conform to the old
and incorrect early survey, and THUS
Fort Blunder" was once again on
United States territory. The people
Of Maine never forgave Webster for, as
they maintained, giving up q . great
slice of territory which they claimed
in order to save Rouse's Point.
The fort was finished after the bound.
airy question was settled, but It has
never been manned by more than
enough men to keep it in order, and
was never armed. At present sergeant
Of marines is stationed there. His only
duty is to raise and lower the flag.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1903-05-14
InMnuatimR.

Harry hear you do not speak to
Miss Rose.
Reggie-No, she is too offending. /
told her went to a phrenologist
and had my head examined and she
said there was nothing in it.
did she mean there was nothing
in phrenology?"
''She said could draw my own
conclusions. = Chicago Daily News.
Can OveFdO 1t.
You can overdo an apology.-Atcni'
son Globe.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1903-05-14
sad Case.

"You seem poorly prepared to an
swer even the simplest question, SIR
said the professor. sternly. "Per-
haps you cannot even tell me who
wrote Caesars Commentaries
mo. sir, can't, said the student,
miserably. II know the name of the
man just as well as I do my own, but
it's gone completely out Of my mind
for the time being.-Youth's COM
panion.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1903-05-14

Richmond following
Pines May 81 1852 truly hearending article contributed
Harrison Ambances htters carts every vehicle that the city
lid fitted through the searching their dead
Of
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1903-05-14
News yso:es.

North Dakota postmasters have
been appointed as follows: Edison A.
Roach, at BorduIac, Foster county,
vice j. L. Wilson, resigned; Emma
Olson, at Lee, Nelson county, vice
O. G. Olson, resigned; John /. HENS
rud at Mekin0ck, Grand Forks coun-
ty, vice Raslnus j. Folven, resigned;
and Thomas E. Smith at Niles, BEN
son county, vice II. T.. Stevens, re-
signed.
Indians have been able to obtain
liquor ut Pollock, near the Standing
Rock reservation, and the threat is
made that unless there is change in
conditions the red men will be for
hidden to visit the place. This has
caused the business men of the place
to get very busy in the interest of
law enforcement, as they cannot af-
ford to lose the Indian trade.
Miss Nettie Bacon, domestic in
the employ of A. ID. Fish at AIinot,
undertook to fill the gasoline tank
without turning off the supply from
the burner. There was an explosion
and the young woman was quite bad
ly burned, and the building and con-
tents were destroyed. The loss is
about $4,000, with small insurance.
The rumor that the 500 has bought
the Farmers railroad is denied.
At meeting of the city council
of Grand Forks after most exciting
session, G. G. Gowran was granted a
telephone franchise.
Wheatland has two automobiles,
owned by Banker Mares and August
Buttke. manager of the improvement
company. These are the only two
autos west of Fargo in the state.
Judge Cowan sentenced bunch of
blind piggers at Minot the other day.
Lodges of Rathbone Sisters
throughout the state are being yreor-
gained, the intent being to organize
grand lodge.in North Dakota.
A company to manufacture brick
has been incorporated and large
force of men is at work building the
plant. It is intended to have it COM
pleted in time to manufacture mil
lion and a half brick this year.
j. S. Ide of Verndale, Mimi, has
been engaged by the Lisbon board of
education as first assistant principal
in the Lisbon schools for next year,
to fill a vacancy made by the resigna
ton of Miss Gertrn?e Drake.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1903-05-14
Looking FORWARD.

Husband should like to have ono
good, long smoke without your inter-
ference.
Wife-You'il have pl.nty Of time
for thai after you are dead, William.
Judge.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-10-22
HIS CLIENT NO FOOL.
smart Convict ~ HIS Own Lawyer Per.
suades Jury to Aoquit.


The Rev. John T. Tcuhey met BENJAMIN
Roberts, negro. in Sing Sing several
months ago and became Interested in His
case. When Roberts was released Father
Touhey engaged him as a typewriter and
bought machine for his use. Subsequently
the machine disappeared and on the floor
OF Robertss room was found a pawn ticket
for a machine which Father Touhey de-
clared was his. He had Roberts indicted
When Robertss case went to trial yes
terday before Judge Foster in General
Sessions Judge Foster assigned counse
to him. IL think | would rather be nv
own COUNSEL" said Roberts.
Counsel Roberts then cross xamin ed
Father Touhey, asking how he could pos
itively Identify the typewriter as his own.
Father Touhey said that he could not.
The defendant will take the stand"
said Counsel Roberts: Benjamin Roberts
erts walked around to the witness stand
ana the oath was administered.
Were you ever in PRISON." asked Assis-
tant District Attorney Townsend.
object to that question and instruct
my client not to answer" said Counsel
Roberts. Then he changed himself into
Witness Roberts, who SAID
answer"
But you must answer" said Judge
Foster. By lightning change the witness
became counsel.
Very we'll, give mo an exception. Wit
ness. answer the question:" said Counsel
Roberts.
Il was in Sing Sing" said Defendant
Roberts. Roberts kept up the lightning
change act for some time and finally the
Jury went out and acquitted him, leaving
Judge Foster gasping.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-10-22
TO HURRY "PARSIFAL" FIGHT.
Conried Wants 1t Over Before the Opera
Season Begins.

Gilbert Ray Halves, counsel for Frau
Cosima Wagner, will open preliminary
skirmish tomorrow morning in the United
States Circuit Court in his fight to prevent
Heinrich Conried from producing "Parsifal'
at the Metropolitan Opera House.
1t was Hawes's original intention to mako
the application for an injunction tomorrow,
but that will probably go over for another
week by agreement Of all hands.
Mr.. Conried said yesterday that he had
brought matters to head himself.
In the ordinary course Of events he
added. this fight wouldn't get into the
courts until after the close OF the opera
season, but want the matter settled now.
We are all ready to 60 on on Friday
said Lawyer Halves, -but the other side
isn't ready. They have telephoned me
to-day and asked to have the case ad.
1ourned until Friday Of next week. will
consent to that on certain conditions.
Whenwe go before Judge 1.acombe on Friday
| want it to be noted by the court that the
request for an adjournment came from the
other side, and shall ask that Mr.. Conried
be restrained, by court order, from making
any further preparations for producing
the opera until after the main question. as
TO his right to produce 1t at all, has been
determined
Judge Dittenhoefer, counsel for Conried,
said that there had been no forcing OF the
matter at all; that he had simply sent
polite note to Mr.. Halves asking him to
make his application for an injunction as
soon as possible.