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The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1904-02-18

that they may not pull up. Have the end
posts we'll braced with strong red elm
pole and a No. II wire like this. The
brace pole should be off the ground u
few inches at the second post that it may
not rot off and weaken the fence. With
an iron rod twist the brace wires togeth-
er above and below the brace. Should
the fence be 40 rods or more long put
braces in the middle of fence like Fig. 2.
To unwind the spool of barbed wire
OF roll of woven wire take an iron shaft
an old buggy axle will do-and run
1t through the spool and let axle rest
on wagon bed just in front of the hind
standards of wagon. Run small wire
around each standard and the buggy
axle and that will keep spool of wire
from bouncing about too much. Take
the end gate out Of wagon and run out
a little of the wire (wire should be
placed on axle so that it will unwind
from under side) and fasten securely to
one Of your end posts. Now drive along
Your line of posts and the wire will UNI
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1904-02-18
METHOD OF BRAC1NG.

S4MFJ-E MI lI1OO. OF' 6nAClNG.
wind. When you reach the farther end
get one wheel, prefer hind wheel, in
line with where you want to stretch the
wire, brace and chunk your wheels all
but the one you intend to stretch the
wire with. Take a strong chain with
ring on one end and hook on the other
"a stay chain will do), run the chain
around wagon spoke and through the
ring and hook in the bolt hole of a
sickle guard of binder or mower; hook
the guard (Which fits just right over the
barbed wire) and now you are ready to
stretch the wire. Turn the wagon wheel
by hand and as you turn the chain winds
up on the hub of the wheel.
When you have stretched your wire
as tight as you want it brace your wheel
we'll and then staple wire to posts. If
you want to stretch woven wire after
having unwound it staple securely q
strong stick as long as the woven wire
Is high, leave the guard off and fasten
chain to middle of stick and then stretch
as you would barbed wire. l have tried
this plan of building fence for number
Of years and it has given good satisfac-
tion.-Frank G. Hughes, in Prairie
Farmer
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1904-02-18
GOOD SOIL FOR CORN.
In Certain Conditions 1t IL Far Bettey
to Prepare Land In Spring
Than in FAN.

Good tillable soil has always as
much to do in growing crop of corn
as the seed. The ground may be plowed
either in the fall or In the spring with
success. This, however, must be de-
cided by the farmer himself in plan
ming his work. Fall blowing on the
average will produce somewhat
larger yield of both fodder and corn,
but the ground must be given extra
cultivation in the spring to prevent the
weeds from starting. If the farmer
does not have the time to do the nee.
essary cultivation, it is better for him
to pillow the ground in the spring. The
extra cultivation, however, puts the
soil into more tillable condition and
retards the loss of moisture by evapo-,
ration more than spring blowing will
do. If corn land is to be spring plowed
it is a good plan to wait until nearly
planting time so as to give the weeds
good start before turning them un-
der. After blowing, pack the ground
thoroughly with harrow or a SUBJ
surface packer to get the bottom Of the
furrow slice compact before the seed
is put in it. Plant three to five kernals
in hill so as to allow some plants to
be destroyed by narrowing without
making the stand too thin. Harrow
ing can be carried on successfully I'M
til the corn has reached a height of
four or five inches.-E. G. Schollander.
in Farmers Review.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1904-02-18

9 Buffalo. n; Y; Feb. lS;aPhysicians
standard remedy for diseases of the KID.
neys and kindred complaints. r. II. Dun.
away, NJ. D., Of Benton, Ill.,, says: "a
Dodd's Kidney Pills cured me of Dis-
betes after everything else had failed and
was given up to die. have since pre-.
scribed them in my regular practice for
never as yet known them to fall
jesse l.. Lines, NJ. d., st. John, Kan.
sas, says
II prescribed Dodd's Kidney Pills for
the little daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Nc
Bride Of this place who suffered from
Epileptic fits following Scarletina; results
were miraculous; have never seen any
thing like it,
Leland Williamson, NJ. d., Yorktown.
Ark, says.
"Dodd's Kidney Pills are the best medi.
cine ! know. of for all forms Of Kidney
Disease. believe in using the remedy
that relieves and cures my patients,
whether ethical or not, and l always pre-
scribe .Dodd:s Kidney Pills and can testify
that they invariably accomplish a perma
nent and perfect cure Of all Kidney Com
plaints.''
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1904-02-18

THE season of catching cold is upon
Al j us. The cough and the sneeze and
every hand. The origin of chronic
catarrll, the most comm on anL dreadful
Of diseases, is a cold.
This is the way the chronic catarrh
generally begins. A person catches cold,
which hangs on longerthan usual. The
cold generally starts in the head and
throat. Thenfollows sensitivenessofth the
air passages which incline one to catch
cold very easily. At last the person has
q cold all the while seemingly, more or
less discharge from the nose. hawking,
splitting, frequent clearing of the throat,
nostrils stopped up, full feeling in the
head and sore, intlamed throat.
The best time to treat catarrh is at
the very beginning. A bottle of Peruna
properly used never fails to cure a COM
mon cold, thus preventing chronic
catarrh.
While many people have been cured
of chronic catarrll by a single bottle of
Peruna, yet, as a rule, when the catarrh
becomes thoroughly fixed, more than
one bottle is necessary to complete q
cure. Peruna has cured cases innumer-
able of catarrh of twenty years. stand
ing. 1t il the best, if not the only
internal remedy for chronic catarrh in
existence.
Butprevention is far better than cure.
Every person subject to catching cold
should take Peruna at once at the
slightest symptom of cold or sore
throat at this season of the year and
thus prevent what is almost certain to
end in chronic catarrh. 81.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1904-02-18

had good appetite but my food did
down from 40 to about rs pounds in
weight. I now feel that am well of
all my troubles. Mrs. A. Snedeker.
Send for free book on catarrh. en- titled
ssWinter Catarrh," by DR.. Hartman.
"Health and Beauty" sent free to
women only.
Ifyoudo not derive prompt and salts
factory results from the use of Peruna,
write at once to DIR. Hartman, giving .
full statement of your case and hewill
be pleased to give you his valuable adj
vice gratis. ~ A
Address DR.. Hartman, President Of
The Hartman Sanitarium, Columbus, o.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1904-02-18
FENCE RAIL PHILOSOPHY.

Opportunities are often handmade.
The small tree often bears the best
fruit.
No job is impossible to a willing
worker.
+ It's too late to spare when the gran
airy is bare.
If you want to get at the kernel first
crack the shell.
If all work was as easy as lying ev-
erybody would be kept busy.
The best time to read a note or a
mortgage is before you sign it.
To stand upright man, like sack,
must have something in him.
It's thrifty farmer who drives his
work and is not driven by it. u
The man who thinks every other
man is liar is most generally a liar
himself.
It's crackin' good hand that sticks
to his work like a pig to a rough fence
in flea time.
In searching for knowledge a man
frequently finds out something he
didn't care to know.
It's the findin' out of some things we
don't want to know that makes the get
tin of knowledge disagreeable.-Farm
Life.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1904-02-18
POSSIBILITIES INFORM.
the Preparation and Cultiya.
.t- tiOn of the Soil.

We only raise little more than half
a good ear of corn to the hill in the
United States, assuming that a good
ear should weigh a pound. In some OF
the best corn sections the crop equals
an ear to the hill, but there are many
states where 1t is exceptional to find
an ear weighing over half pound, and
it is good corn field where there are as
many stalks bearing ears of half pound
or over as there are of stalks that bear
only nubbins or nothing at all. To any
one who has never investigated the mat
ter closely it will be surprise to count
the number of barren stalks in row. If
we select good seed corn from an average
field, taking only ears that weigh one
pound or over, about so per cent. of the
kernels planted will produce ears as
good as or better than the original. From
Is or 20 per cent. will grow barren
stalks, and the balance will produce all
sizes from nubbins to fair ears.
1t is customary to plant at least three
kernels to the hill, and If we could grow
three good ears on each hill we would
have about $50 bushels to the acre.
Here is problem for the implement
manufacturer to consider carefully.
Next to the selective breeding of seed,
the most important thing in the produce
tion of good corn crop is the work Of
the implements and machines used in
preparing the ground and cultivating the
growing crop. There has been great
improvement in the past 20 years in the
construction of planters, cultiyators
and other implements used in the corn
field, and there is room for equally great
progress in the coming generation, espe-
cially in the direction of thoroughness
in cultivation. The corn crop is the
most valuable product of the American
continent, and it would be almost twice
as great if we could only raise the
equivalent of one good ear to the hill.
If we could average two ears to the hill
our corn crop would exceed the worlds
crop of all other cereals.-Implement
| Age.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1904-02-18
A Cheap Wire stretcher.

A cheap and very serviceable wire
stretcher can be made as follows: Take
a five-sixteenths inch rope about seven
feet long, on one end put clevis and
fasten to a spoke in rear wagon
wheel; brace the wagon SO that it can
not run back. On the other end of
the rope put a mower guard and put
wire in this; If it should slip put a
claw hammer on wire in front Of the
guard and behind barb; now turn
the wheel and the hub will act as a
windlass, ard the wire can be stretched
very tightly and quickly.-Midland
Farmer.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1904-02-18
New. Potato bug Destroyer. !

New Potato mug DehtrOyeEs *
If the inventors keep on turning out
machinery to do the farmers work for
him the problem Of hired help will be
solved for the large farmer at least, as
he can afford to buy the machinery and
pay the good wages necessary to COM
mand the men to run it. The latest
idea is the machine for destroying po-
tato bugs in wholesale way, going
over acres of ground in a day and
adapted for use on single or double
rows of plants. It also embodies fea-
lures of adjustment which accommo-
date it to variations in height Of the
plants by simply gripping levers pivot
ed beneath the handles by which the
machine is guided. The movment Of
these levers raises or lowers the blade
supporters. and as the blades rotate
rapidly they strike the plants anc
knock the bugs into the troughs on
either side of the machine. -Milwau-s
kee Sentinel.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1904-02-18
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IMPROVEMENT
DURABLE WIRE FENCE.
Plan O. Building That Has Been Tried
for Years and Always Given
Good Subtraction.

Take a line with rings on each end;
have line just so long that from center
to center of rings is one rod. Stake OF;
this is all right for horse and cattle
fence, for sheep and hogs set the posts
half rod apart. By having the posts a
rod or half rod apart it makes it nice
about calculating the amount of land
in field.
The end posts should be hedge or null
berry with roots or large knot or pieces
spiked on lower end of post SO that
when set and the dirt we'll tamped In
four feet deep it will be perfectly solid.
Where the fence crosses low place
posts should be used that have roots,
large knots or pieces spiked on them
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1904-02-18
pERR1cK FOR LIFTING ICE.

DERRICK FOR LIFTING ICE.
swing It onto the sled. The pin that
goes into the upright post is made
forked. with bolt running through the
lever and ends of the fork. The lower
part moves in the socket bored in the end
of the upright post A chain is fastened
to the end of the lever with pair Of
tongs attached, to lift the ice. One
man can easily foad heavy cakes With
this arrangement.-Orange Judd Farm
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1904-02-18

miss Nellie Holmes, treasures
Of the Young Woman's Temper.
ance Association Of Buffalo, N.Y.,
strongly advises all suffering
women to rely, as she did, up.
on Lydia E. Pinkfam's Vege.
table Compound.
"DEAR Mrs. PINKHAM Your med
icine is indeed an ideal woman's medi-
cine, and by far the best know to
restore lost health and strength. 1
suffered misery for several years, being
troubled with menorrhagia. My back
ached, had bearing-down pains and
frequent headaches. would often
wake from restful sleep, and in such
pain that I suffered for hours before I
could go to sleep again. l dreaded the
long nights as much as the weary days.
I consulted two different physicians,
hoping to get relief but finding that
their medicine did not selm to cure me.
I tried your Vegetable Compound
on the recommendation of friend
from the East who was visiting me.
IL am glad that followed her adj
vice, for every ache and pain is gone.
and not only this, but my general
health is much improved. I have q
fine appetite and have gained in desh.
My earnest advice to suffering women
il to put aside all other medicines and
to take Lydia f.. Pinkham's Vege-
table Compound = - MIss NELLIE
HoLMEs, $40 No. Division ST, Buffalo,
N.Y.-S6Ooof forfeit ifo,iginai Of aeovs Isttsssse.
Wing 0snHfnsness cannot Be produced.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1904-02-18

that L thought L
would try it and
see what it would
do fo4 me. My
case is an old one
and / have none
of the a Gu tie
symptoms now
because I have
had the disease
SO long that / had
none of the aches
and pains, but a
general rundown
condition of the
whole body-sore
nose and throat
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The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1904-02-18

Hojack- ..You don't really imagine that
girls actually propose sometimes. do you!"
Tomdik-'Well all I know is that this is
leap year, and some girls are getting mar
ried who never got married before."-
Town Topics
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1904-02-18

Hon David Meehson State
He began his political serving four term,
the Meeson Bank Ohio He elected
leader of his party in his section of the State.
as til
believe
thirty standing david Meeks0n
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1904-02-18
10000 Plants for ice.

xVSVVV x-xOnt0 XOx lOCs
This is remarkable offer the John A.
Salzer Seed Co., La Crosse, Wis, makes.
seed catalog, together with enough seed to
1000 fine, solid Cabbages,
1900 delicious Carrots,
1000 blanching, nutty Celery,
1000 rich, buttery Lettuce,
1000 splendid Onions,
1000 rare, luscious Radishes,
1000 gloriously brilliant Flowers.
This great offer is made in order to in.
duce you to try their warranted seeds
for when YOU once plant them you will
grow no others, and
ALL FOR BUT Ice POSTAGE,
providing you will return this notice, and
If you will send them 2Oc in spostage, they
will add to the above package of the fa.
NOUS Berliner Caulifower. K. H.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1904-02-18
To WashaChina sillk Dre.ae.

To WashHC China SIX Dresaes.
China silk dresses may be quite success.
fully washed. Remove all spots with ben
zine. Then wash in warm soapsuds, rub.
bling between the hands; rinse through
several waters. Use Ivory Soap and 10
not rub the soap on the dress. Wiring as
dry as possible, wrap in sheet or clean,
cotton cloth and when partially dry, iron.
ELEANOR X. PARKER.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1904-02-18

Playing the fool is said to be a uni
yersal accomplishment.-Chicago Daily
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1904-02-18
ICE HANDLED EASILY.
Convenient Derrick Arrangement
whereby One Man Can Manipu-
late Heavy Cakes.

Farmers will find that one of the best
ways to load large cakes Of ice con-
veniently is to make derrick as shown
in the cut, and lift it from the water and
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1904-02-18

Some second thoughts occur several
minutes latcr.--Chicago Daily News.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1904-02-18

Mrs. A. snedeker, Gainesville, Ga,
writes:
81 saw that your catarrh remedy.
Peruna, was doing others SO much good,
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1904-02-18

Children should be seen more and talked
about less.-Chicago Daily News.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1904-02-18

Rheumati.m,s Killing Pain
left in quick order after taking 10 doses Of
DIR. skirvin's Rheumatic Cure in tablet
% form; = - doses for 25c POSTPAID. WIS.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1904-09-21
APING ENGLAND.

Secretary Taft, IN a speech at Mont.
pelier, VT. gave the best intimation OF
republican purposes respecting the
FllipinoS, when, in concluding his
speech, he said:
The great object we now have in the
philippines is to build up the govern.
ment there so as to make it more and
more useful to the Filiplnos, so that
they may ultimately become an educat-
ed,intelligent and self-governing people.
then If they desire independence, let
them have it. But if we bring them in
behind the tariff wall, if they see that
association with the United States is
beneficial to them, as verify believe it
will be, it is quite unlikely that they
VIII desire full Independence. 1t IS
quite likely they will prefer that as.
ISOLATION which exists between Eng
land and Australia or between England
and Canada
1t is the expectation OF Secretary
Taft that the Filipinos shall sustain
toward US the relation that Canada and
Australia sustain toward England.
that IS colonies. Here is a confession
that the republican leaders do not ex-
pect to give independence to the
Filipinos but expect to initiate Eng
land in the establishment of colonial
policy.
England appoints governor general
in both Canada and Australia and be
has an absolute veto over legislation.
The fact that the veto is seldom exer.
cised does not alter the theory of gov.
eminent. That theory is directly
antagonistic to ours and we must
abandon our theory of government in
order to adopt the English theory.
Judge Parker stapds for independence
as against c0lonialism and would make
the promise at once as it was made to
Cuba.
When Secretary Taft speaks of bring.
ing the FllipinOs in behind the tariff
wall" he gives away the secret of i'm
perialism. 1t is scheme to give the
tariff barOns few fields for exploitation.
and they are willing to repeal the Dec.
laration of Independence and resort to
carpetbag government and to a large
army to enforce the collection of a
tariff tribute. The way to abolish,
colonialism is to elect Parker and Davis
and to elect congress opposed to i'm.
perialism. -COmmOner.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1904-09-21
DRAWS THE RECORD ON ROOSEVELT.

Henry w. Young, editor of the
Times, OF independence, Kansas and
formerly useful state senator from
that section, has looked up the record
OF Mr.. Roosevelt, the pseudo trust
buster" and finds that he has been very
strenuous" III the use of his mouth
against the popuIists. We clip the
following from Senator Young's
paper:
Quite a number of my populis
friends HAYS expressed the intention of
voting for Roosevelt, and / have NO
doubt the number of former populists
In Kansas who intend to vote for him
reaches up into the thousands. These
people. at any rate, ought to be interest
ed to learn what the president thinks
OF them. In American Ideals (Vol. H.,
p. 23), he fayors the populists with this
complaint:
Refinement and comfort they are
apt to consider as quite as Objectiona.
ole as morality. A taste fol
learning and cultivated friends, and q
tendency to bathe frequently, cause
them the deepest suspicion \
Though they often make war on vice
they rather prefer making war OF
prosperity and refinement"
And again on his phamphlet on the
Campaign of 1896:
Thrift, industry and business en-
ergy are qualities which are quite In
compatible with true populistic feeling
Payment of debts, like the suppressi on
OF riots, is abhorrent to the popul istic
mind. Such conduct strikes { he
populists as IMMORAL
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1904-09-21

THERE is very little in the Maine
state election returns to give repub-
licans campaign thunder. The
election which was held in that
state last week shows Democratic
gain of thirty one per cent and a
loss in the republican plurality
The Democratic managers regard
this as sure indication that New
York, Indiana, West Virginia and
Wisconsin will go Democratic in
November.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1904-09-21

Ibis IS year that no democrat
can entertain a proposition to
knife candidate on his ticket.
There IS no concealing the fact
that there is a republican plurality
to overcome and every Democratic
vote is needed. 1t should also be
remembered that nearly all of the
republicans were elected two years
ago by reason of the fact that votes
were thrown out for the fusion
ticket on account of technicalities
OF an infamous election law. If
the democrats want to rebuke that
way of doing business, this wear
presents the opportunity. If the
republicans win out they will claim
vindication and there is no telling
what further outrages will be en-
acted in future campaigns. Perhaps
we Will soon have a law not only
making it unlawful to count a
democratic vote but also making
it unlawful for Democrats to vote
at all.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1904-09-21

Nor satisfied with having de-
prived the Kiowa News Review of
the state patronage which Justly
belonged to it, the Medicine Lodge
machine republicans now refer to
it as a Democratic paper. The
publisher of the News Review was
the only original Hoch man
among the republican leaders of
Barber county. He attended the
Topeka meeting which brought
the pressure on Mr.. Hoch to back
INTO the race for governor after he
had once backed out; he encourag-
ed the Hoch boom when it needed
encouragement and gave his time
and money freely to assist in plac-
ing his name at the head of the
ticket. In view of Mr.. Ha-
berlein's services at time when
all other leaders were defamine
the gubernatorial candidate. il
was ungrateful of Mr.. Hochs
friends to reward his enemies, and
1t IS more ungrateful to now ignore
the News Review in matters DO
litical and to add insult to injury
by CHASING the paper as Demo
cratic when it is the only paper in
the county that carries Roosevelt
and Hoch at its masthead.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1904-09-21

The nomination of J. v. Fish
burn for trustee of Medicine Lodge
township by the Democrats was a
deservant one. Mr.. Fishburn is
thoroughly competent to perform
the work and the Office would suit
him nicely. Jack has met with
severalmistortunes lately which in
capacitates him for hard labor and
he has family to. support. If elect
ed, he will discharge the duties of
the office in much more creditable
manner than trustees ordinarily do.