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The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1905-05-25

ant tip. Well, I don't know what
the servants did to our baggage, but
they must have marked it with q
smallpox sign, or something, for no
body would touch 1t for several hours.
but finally baggage man took it and
started for our apartments, and got
lost, and didn't show up for two days,
and when it was finally landed on the
sidewalk nobody would carry it up
stairs, and dad and. had to lug it up
two flights, and thought dad would
have apoplexy.
We found guide who could talk
New Orleans English and he said it
would cost three dollars to square it
with the servants, at the hotel, and
have the boycott removed from our
baggage, and dad paid it, and now he
coughs up tip every time he sees .
servant look at him. He pays when
he goes in a restaurant and when he
comes out, and says he is cured OF
trying to reform the customs of any,
body else's country.
we nave Su6d6CU d 6uAuS W stay
with US day and night. The guide
took us out for a bat last night. and
dad had the time of his life. Dad has
drank a good deal of spurious and
malt liquors in his time, but don't
think he ever INDUCED much in cham
payne at three or four dollars a bot
tie at home. Maybe he has been saw
ing himself up till he got over here,
where champagne is cheap and it
takes several quarts to make you see
angels. The guide took us to one of
these bullyvards, where there. are ta-
bles out on the sidewalk, and you
can eat and drink and look at the
dukes and counts and dutchesses and
things, promenading up and down.
flirting like sin, and we sat down to
a table and ordered things to eat and
drink. and dad looked like Uncle Sam,
and felt his oats.
When he had drank q few thimble-
fuls of absinthe. and some champagne,
and eat plateful of frogs. he was
just ripe for trouble. A woman and
q MdA al 9u auyOAAAu6 InOl0 udO OAS
of these white dogs that is sheared
like hedge fence, with spots of long
hair left on in places, and dad coaxed
the dog over to our table and began
to feed him frogs legs, and the wom-
an began to talk French out loud, and
look cross at dad, and the count that
was with her came over to our table
and looked at dad in a tone of voice
that meant trouble. and said some
thing sassy, and the guide said the
man wanted to fight duel because dad
had contaminated the woman's dog,
and dad got mad and offered to wipe
out the whole place, and he got up
with champagne bottle and looked
defiance at the count, and the walters
began to scatter, when the woman
came up to dad and begged him not
TO hurt the count. and as she spoke
broken English dad, could understand
her, and she looked so beautiful, and
her eyes were filled with tears, and
lad relented and said: Don't cry.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1905-05-25

alive, it comes right from the north
pole, and you just perish in your
tracks.
Gee. but 1t is awful. When you get
seasick on an ordinary ocean, you
know where to locate the disease, and
1ou know where to go for relief, and
when you have got relieved you know
that you are alive, but an English
channel seasickness is as different
from any other as an alcohol jag is
different from champagne drunk.
This English channel seasickness be-
gins on your toes, and you feel as
though the toenails were being pulled
out with pincers, and the veins in
your legs seem to explode. your arms
wilt like lettuce in front of a cheap
grocery, your head seems to be struck
with pile-driyer and telescoped down
into your spine, and your stomach
feels as though you had swallowed a
telephone pole with all of the cross
arms and wires and glass insulators,
and you wish lightning would strike
you. Gosh, but dad was hot when
he found that he was sick that way,
and when we got ashore he wanted to
kill the first man he met.
He thinks that it IL crime tor;
q man not to understand the English
language, and when he tells what he
wants. and the man he is talking to
shrugs his shoulders and laughs, and
brings him something else, he wants
to pull his gun and begin to shoot
up the town, and only for me he would
have killed people before this, but now
he takes it out in scowling at people
who do not understand him. Dad
seems to think that if he cannot make
a man understand what he says, all
he has to do is to swear at the man,
but there is no universal language of
profanity, SO the more dad swears the
more the nervous Frenchman smiles.
and acts polite.
think the French people are the
politest folks ever knew. II
Frenchman had to kick person out Of
doors, he would wear felt slipper,
and after he had kicked you he would
place his ha-u on his heart, and bow,
and look so sorry, and hurt, that you
would want to give him tip.
o, but this tipping business is what
is breaking dads heart. think II
the servants would arrange a syndi-
cate to rob dad of two or three dol
lars day, by pocket picking, or sneak
thieving, he would overlook it, and
say that as long as it was one of the
customs of the country we should
have to submit to it, but when he
has paid his bill, with everything
charged extra, and the servants line
up and look appealingly, or mad, as
the case may be, dad is the hardest
man to loosen that ever was, but if |
they seem 10 look the other way, and |
not, apparently, care whether they get
a cent or not, dad would go and hunt
them up, and divide his roll with
them. Dad is not what you would
call a tight wad," if you let him
shed his money normally, when he
feels the loosening coming On, but you
try to work him by bowling and cring-
ing, and his American spirit gets the
bette. of him. and he looks upon the ]
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1905-05-25
Making Money for Others.

Our minis are now coming money
for nations that have no minis of
their own. For example. last year the
Philadelphia mint coiced money for
Colombia and Venezuela. The Phila-
delphia and San Francisco minis exc
cuted the coinage for the Philippine
eovernment.-Boston Transcript
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1905-05-25


''Doan's Kidney
Pills proved a
very efficient
remedy in my
case. l used
them for disor-
dered kidneys
and backache,
from which I
inexperienced
a great deal Of
trou BILE IN d
pain. The kid
new secretiOna
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1905-05-25


Example: Il shall expect you to be-
have" should be Il shall expect you
to be good"
Note: To ask or to command one to
behave is indefinite, as one may be-
have we'll or otherwise. A child prom
Uses teacher to behave during the
teachers absence. No matter how
bad the child has been, he can truth
fully say to his teacher: Il behaved
all the time you were gone"
Don't say better of the two"
Example: (Which apple is the bet
ter of the two?" should be (Which ap-
pie is the better?"
Note: The use of the word bet
ter implies comparison, therefore "of
the two" is superfuous.
Don't say between" for among"
Example: THE fight was between
seven of Them" should be 1.-The fight
was among seven of them"
Note: Do not use the word between
when the number exceeds two.
Don't say "bit' for ANY"
Example: "Will you not take a bit
,ess?" should be "Will you not take
any less?"
Note: I heard man in California
ask an expressman IL he would not
take . bit less than the amount
charged. The man Addressed, unac-
customed to the Yankeeism, became
indignant; bit to him was 1917
cents
Don't say blamed it on" for
blamed"
Example: HE blamed it on the
conductor" should be HE blamed
taccused) the conductor.
Don't say "blowed" for blew
Example "He b!owed the bugle when
in the army" should be "He blew the
bugle when in the army" or "He was
bugler when in the army"
Don't say both alike for "alike."
Example: "They were both alike"
should be They were alike"
y
Don't say "both recalled" for "re-
called"
Example: THE two boys both re-
called having met" should be "The
two boys recalled having met"
Don't say bound for determined"
Example: "He was bound to inter-
fere," should be "He was determined
to interfere"
Don't say bravery" for courage.
Example: "He is a brave man."
should be "He is a courageous man"
Note: Don't say so unless you really
mean bravery. The words are not
A man may be brave
by nature Gas bravery is inborn) but
courage comes by cultivation. AL
brave man is often reckless man.
man is generally a eau
tiOus one.
Don't say "brick-bat" for brick"
Note: A brick-bat is a piece of
brick.
Don't say buffalo" for bison"
Note. In North America, bison; in
India. buffalo.
Don't say bug" for insect"
Note: All insects are not bugs; all
Bugs are not insects.
Don't say "bursted" for burst"
Example: THE boiler bursted,"
'hould be ''The boiler burst"
Note: There is no word bursted;
renee. it should not be used in any
ense.
..
Don't say but that" for that"
Example: II do not doubt but that
le did it," should be Il do not doubt
hat he did it."
Don't say "but" for eft"
Example: II do not know but he 10
'one,' should be Il do not know III
'e is gone"
Dsa't az but" for than"
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1905-05-25

A woman thinks her husband is
splendid business man when he can
straighten out her bank balance for her
up the overdraft--N. Y Press.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1905-05-25
Ladies' Can Wear Shoes

A mans affidavit a. to biz own charac
Ter is not evidence.-N. Y. Times.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1905-05-25

One size smaller after using Aliens Foot
Ease. a certain cure for swollen, sweating,
cept no substitute. Trial package FREE.
Address A. s. Olmsted. lie Roy, N. Y.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1905-05-25

A smooth tongue has caused many
man to slip.-N. o. Picayune.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1905-05-25
QUICK RESULTS.

~ W. j. Hill, of Concord,
A n. c., Justice of the
"a Peace, says:
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1905-06-09
SOMETHING ABOUT
THE kU kLUX.
BY w. H. H. BEVILL.

Away back some thirty-five
wears ago there arose up clan
called the ku klux, and there were
various superstitions as to where
they came from. Some asserted
that they came from a swamp in
Georgia, others said they came
out of great cave in the noun
tains in Tennessee. Still others
said that it was an upheval OF the
dead from the battle of Second
Manassas; and indeed this last
was the old negro woman's opin-
ion. When one called her up
one night and asked her for
drink of water, the old negro
handed him some in gourd::
He said, Hand me the bucket"
which she did. He took the
bucket and stretched out his
, neck about as long as Uncle
Peters gun barrel and drank it
/ all, and this started the slang of
7 the rubber neck" for | do not
r remember of hearing that word
used prior to that time. After
e he drank his water he cleared up
: his throat and told the old negro
: that was the first water he had
e drank since the Second Battle OF
e Manassas, for he got killed there
. and had just come back. The
= old woman staggered back and
r said, "De law me, boss, ha:
= Gabel dun blowed his horn?' HI
le said, mo, not yet, for he wa
d only in the spirit" He thel
e turned his horse around and rod
n. away, leaving the old woman il
Is greater wonder and astonishmen
,e than she evef had been before
Y, And as for my part, | do nc
I'd know where they first starte
G. from, but | do know that the
ly kept things quiet for a whil'
he and | think done some good, an
mt at the same time they done son
Ills things that they ought to hay
le- let alone. Now there were SON
ay good men in that order, but the
as carried it too far. But the wor
or thing they done was, they too
ed some of the meanest men in
lys their order that ever lived
On Union county or any other coun
of men whose deeds were black
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1905-06-09
The Liberty Bell.

From the earliest times the
Philadelphia statehouse bell has
been symbol of patriotism. 1t
sounded the repeal of the stamp
act, and in 1766 it tolled forth
the closing of the port of Boston.
1t announced the first battle of
the American Revolution and the
passage of the Declaration of In
dependence, on which day, we
are told, that the great bell
rang all day and almost all night. "
1t announced the surrender of
CORVALLIS and the establishment
of the constitution of the United
States. 1t has given a hearty
welcome to foreign visitors and
| tolled the requiem Of honored
and respected dead,
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1905-06-09
WASTE or HUMAN
LIFE I'm AMERICA,
BY DANIEL T. PIERCE.

Fifty-seven thousand, five hum
dred lives are annually lost IN
the United States by accidents
and injuries. The census (Bul-
letin 83) SO classifies this num-
ber of deaths for the year l9OO,
and all Independent investigators
agree that this is an under, rather
than an overestimate, of the
average. The number of acci-
dents and injuries that do not
result fatally is not given, and
we can only guess at the total
remembering that non-fatai al.
ways largely outnumber fata
accidents, however a catastrophe
may occur.
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1905-06-09
ENGINEERING n
BULL CAMPAIGN
BY HENRY IRVING DODGE.

Speculation is two-fifths IRE
concilable facts and the rest PLAIN
guessing. If there were any
method by which operations IN
Wall Street could be reduced to
a certainty the "Street, using
the term symbolically rather than
geographically, would cease to
exist. Even the great captains
of finance who are credited with
the control of the market are
as subject to it's caprices as the
man who bets FIVE dollars in the
bucket-shop.
With the leaders it is a great
game Of poker, each attempting
a new method with every new
deal; each seeking to conceal MS
own hand while endeavoring tt
read that of his opponent. Plo
and counter-plot mark the prog
ress of the game. The seeking
out of the enemy's stronghold
the extent Of his resources, aye
the scrutiny of his very person
atty, are part of the business
The knowledge of the conditio
of his health, even, is a prim
: factor. How much can he stan
physically and financially? Ho'
Wabout his nerves and his nerve
These are questions that sugge
the opportune, the psychologist
moment, at which to strike.
When the captain of the gar
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1905-06-09
accidents.

accidents.
IL IS not lack of knowledpe ot
means to prevent accidents ~ " "
results in the yearly incressa t,ia, a.
tne railway death roll Il se ;s ~, IN
Willingness to. adopt me,n. 10 uie ne
sale naiety, the efficiency of which is IS
Meli estab!ished- and expensiveI %
In the United States h'.ve: thern we
on an average six EMPLOYEES 81 70
every every mile of track; in EnoisnJ ~
chere are twenty-six ennie,'au
cost cos each sIa mi mile. English roads
Sose ?la,50O a mile to operate.
= anerlcan ,,,i1n roads spend only SIS. 500
TO decrease railway casu,1t;os
we need five things accord;n aii,es
~ * GG3pert opinion on this subject:
h,osil Universal adoption of the
system or 6ouhIe Il t,1e
.iTc.I .iack and the check system on
~ Use of the interIocL;no ~
'tead ndi system, and of steel in. .
|oN "! wooden cars. 6
,ot+ ts1 More men and more COM !,
:eeent men in the actual onern % II II
oadbed. VIC opkeep OF s
0 Prevention of excessive o o
8$74AEpaazk by railway sem- = =
ne public anu r5 the govern ., :,
90 su9 nSsR as5ss te snsssss
vefdncing i n; Ene !, !, proteesiSH i. =
he killing ast,alnmen. st
mn neonIe q VShe waste of life tv
no oS and the means m
Nee vic waste. if we 81
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innUllli.'Cll

E 'xG,,11 cnah the printers ink, men who
anJ mva'd go to old Scott's hounds
Eng and TO old Scott himself i amJ
s" D~,on Up everything he knew and
snmti sU,nJ !hlngs that he did not know
anything about. They arN m NV
ones ones that caused old Scoft '4e 4e
send out his hounds and 49, sco, 10
lne country and Jerk IN old our r,o
wh;,o S,IG crowd tS them into the ia;I
snd mmliG TN ehey would prowl aro1nd
nu ;nm iDok worse than a sheen lii
iiiE IHE oog. If any of them ~ are
~ tlVlhg today, the state ou~bt not @
c 20 cam them as her citizens hUt mUt
s selo them to the coast of G,,;nea Uu.
ana let them stay with oitSa tSa
negroes where they belonp A ftns sne
some some to Columbia and had some Se
iTIia a I'm OF a trial and sent some % to
I;oaiy I;nJ penltentiary and sono
ilsu lte there. Myself and sevoraI %
SS.ners Sn were arrested abou. tba
lrst OF February, 1872 d and ooae Inc
m nt9 prison for illicit distil,;nS as'
ma some got out on honJ n}
e fi1ie M ald not, and about the 21st
q March we started to Charles
III " the United States co,wt
ia h "heh we got there ererv
,d1s nd x was negroes about the iaiJ
nq they searched ali of @ ,,S "a: JaI
10 'ok our pocket knives and thnu
eaae John Bevis pull off b;s
ao ;aa1o 81 ana as TSoeat So ipettfp. iipetp the tower,
lyself and Bill Johnson, a negro
1oemaker, together. When Bill
and Iato-the cell he struck
what to do but couIu fivv--->sl1
myself. But they did not keep
us there only for about two hours
until they gave us larger rooms.
When our trials came off in
April we got our sentences rang
ing from two months to twelve
months. Uncle Jim Sinclair got
the twelve, but he was the only
one who had much life about
him. When we were all tried
they sent us back to Union to
serve our sentences, and c. p.
Scales and myself ought to claim
the Jail, for we were the first
that were initiated or went up
in blanket. So if it had not
been for those belchers, the very
dogs of the devil, things would
not have been as bad as they
were. Sometimes | would not
care a straw if there were some
more ku klux, men of the right
pluck to take charge of the loaf
ers, dress them nicely and make
them go to work. People need
their work, but because there is
not big money in a little work
they won't do anything but loaf
around, steal something to get
on the chaingang to get piece
of bread and bacon. The best
way is to strap off some and
! maybe the rest will take a modest
hint and get themselves a job
e and go to work, then everybody
e at work times would be some
l better.
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e VETERANS or '62:
The BOYS or '93.
BY T. A. EDGERToN.

u Sna
QSe more our sorrow and or,
love, ou
translated into bloom,
we strew in fragrant wraatb,
above .'i'
mn Inc soldiers silent tomb.
Inc graves of both the old and
new
! Alike we consecrate,
The veterans of '62.
The boys of '98.
Each offered up his little all
mat others might be free
FGrgettlng self, he heard the call
To serve humanity. '
"A Rrouder title none can claim
~, Since this old world began,
Ihe most beloved sons of fame
Are those who die for man.
One faced a fratricidal war
10 lift bondman's yoke:
The other on a foreign shore
A tyrant's shackles broke.
One battled that his native land !
Might still united be;
One 'gainst oppression made his
go, stand J1--S -. =. = = 8, /
b n fought for liberty. 7
What painters brush can ever
linn e.
The hardships they endure?
What pen or tongue can ever !,
hymn
The blessings they secured?
What marches weafisome they
made
Beneath tropic sun!
What glories that will never fade
Were by their valor won!
Their country triumphal arch,
With it's dear flag above,
Two armies, bearing blossoms,
march
AS volunteers Of love.
The one with feeble steps we
view,
The one with tread elate,
The veterans of '62,
The boys of '98.
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Il
!; mas determined the play of Il
enemy and has prepared pla,
tor attack, when he is about
strike the decisive blow, a clor
ourts on the Street from
quarter that has been left IN
guarded. It may be war or ~,
mors OF war, floods in the whea
belt that threaten traffic pros
poets, or the Tightening of tn,
purse-strings by some none,
giant. However the amaze
operator may theorize, the far,
Is sputtered forth by the ticke,
IN a Jargon of disaster-bearinO
clicks. Then the yellow and
white slips come with "b;t .,
miss" explanations; a dozen rea-
sons are given, each one plausi-
Die, all inadequate.
R1nTIr1or SPECULATION.
When the speculative fever
smltes the country, nothing can
check it. 1t must run it's course.
Sometimes a movement of this
nature originates ina general
! unrest "a craving that seems to
SSaaTpass' SSaTas'adh Che 'n Sesa esssapaanslaneeyaly ant Per.
GUS, resulting in a plethora of
that can not be used;
bad business may prompt
general gambling. 1t may mani pHf
fest itself during goRars thssare are at the
sseashore, in the mountains. or
in the backwoods of Maine. Sud
denly they begin to receive ad-
vices from town that buying or
ders are coming in. The market
grows. Expanding, it feeds
upon itself, as it were, growing
and feeding in direct ratio like
a great SNOWFALL whose increas-
ing size and momentum are the
direct cause of each other:
When the public voracity has
been aroused and the standard
securities have been devoured,
accommodating operators rake
out their old "cats and dogs" for
dessert. These the public bolts
with indiscrimination, until some
night it rolls uneasy in its sleep
and awakes, for the small monl
tor voice within has sounded al
alarm. 1t is bulging with a mas
lof undigested securities. Th'
warming that has come to on
Individual by the same process
has come to others, and they sci!
And now the big operator hold
the hat and into it receives
;, mass of amazingly shrunke
"cats and dogs" which he put
5 away into safe, together with
4 bellows, and marks, "To be il
0 flated and put out again whe
81 the financial atmosphere become
h dense enough to float them 4,
: often happens that when Il
great financiers are grinding, II
e public catches some grain tn
e falls from between the stone
But it is liable to be bad
n pinched when the grinding
even legitimate grist is going o
y as it was when Hill and Har
W man were fighting for control
is | Northern Pacific.
to The manufactured bull moN
~ ment is much more frequent tn
W the natural one, because it is
q business of the operators a
1g brokers to keep the pot boiiil
d, and it is an established fact Il
re-, the public only comes in on
N. bull side. 1t is started geners
:. by some clique and is q slow
ss' expensive process. The pu'
on appetite must be stimulated
me artificial means. In order to
nd the press to notice the moveme
ow a great volume of trading orc
w is sent to the exchange. III
'e orders can be executed at
est rate of two dollars a hume
ical shares, whereas the ordir
commission to the outsider
,na twelve and a half dollars a !