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The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1905-07-20
MARKETING POTATO CROPS.
Kew the Railroads lladc Il Possible
for the Growers 70 Get Fair
Prices.

In line with the classic case Of the
oyster shippers. cited by President
Hadley, OF Yale University, in his book
on Railroad Transportation, is the case
of the Aroostook potato growers
brought by President futile, of the
Boston and Maine Railroad before the
Senate Committee on Interstate Com.
merce. Nothing could better show how
4. railroad works for the interest Of
the localities which it serves.
A main dependence of the farmers
of the Aroostook region Is the potato
crop, aggregating annually eight to
ten million bushels which find mar
ket largely in Boston and the adjacent
thicl1ly settled regions of New Eng
land. The competition Of cheap water
Transportation from Maine to all points
along the New England coast keeps
railroad freight rates on these potatoes
always at very low level.
Potatoes are also agconsiderable out
put Of the truck farms Of Michigan,
their normal market being obtained in
and through Detroit and Chicago and
other communities of that region.
Not many years ago favoring sun
and rains brought a tremendous yield
Of potatoes from the Michigan fields.
At normal rates and prices there would
have been a glut of the customary
markets and the potatoes would have
rotted on the farms. To help the pc.
cato growers, the railroads from
Michigan made unprecedentedly low
rates on potatoes to every reachable
market. even carrying them in large
quantities to a. place SO remote as Bos.
ton. The Aroostook growers had to
reduce the price on.their potatoes, and
even then could not dispose of them
unless the Boston and Maine railroad
reduced it's already low rate, which it
did. BY means Of these low rates,
making possible low prices, the pota.
to crops of both Michigan and Maine
were finally marketed. Everybody eats
potatoes, and that year everybody had
all the potatoes he wanted.
While the Michigan railroads made
rates that would have been ruinous to
the railroads, had they been applied to
the movement of all potatoes at lltimes
to all places, they helped their patrons to
find The Boston and Maine
Railroad suffered q decrease in it's rev.
enue from potatoes, but it enabled the
Aroostook farmers to market their cror
and thereby to obtain money which
they spent for the varied supplies
which the railroads brought to them
II the making Of rates were subject te
Governmental adjustment, such rad
teal and prompt action could never
have been taken, because it is we'll es.
tablished that If rate be once re-
duced by railroad company, it can
not be restored through the red tape
Of Governmental procedure. II the
Michigan railroads and the Boston ant
Maine Railroad had been subjected tt
Governmental limitation they would
have felt obliged to keep up their rates
as do the railroads of France and Eng
land and Germany under Governmental
limitation, and let the potatoes rot
Exchange.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1905-07-20
muuta,t' q Entut1riua-
tint Drantt1g Nrarrr
by MRS. LILLE DEvEREux BLAKE.

onors In the older universities
ton with boys, but safely excluded They
them.
Victor Hugo said that te nineteenth century the womans
century, and probable that the
that cycle the
the achievement all that struggled
of the present and of the coming ar
the seeds OF which the OF half Of
the nineteenth century.
Woman has been in the and will always be in the the
guardian of the ome the and her emancipation
will mark a bright in the evolution of the world
1t preposerous suppose that the working for su
age approved of the singular financial social
conditions that have been advocated from time time fanatics 1t
hold the leaders in the womans responsible
peculiar that by
have also favored suffrage.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1905-07-20

of the boards for over 1000 years.
that the eating of human prisoners by
wild beasts in the presence of the
Roman populace was played out, and
that the Coliseum was ruin and did not
exist as place of amusement. He
thought everything that he had read
about the horrors of Roman holiday
was running to-day, as side show. and
he wanted to see it, and had encouraged
him in his ideas, because he was nervous,
and didn't want to undeceive him.
He had come to Rome to see things he
couldn't find at home, and it was up to
me to deliver the goods.
Gee, but it made me sweat, cause l
knew if dad did not get show for his
money. he would lay it up against me,
SO told him we would go to thu
Coliseum that night and see the hungry
lions and tigers eat some of the leading
citizens, just as they did when Caesar
run the show. Then found an Ameri-
can from Chicago at the hotel, who
sells soap In Rome, and told him what
dad expected of me in the way Of amuse-
ment, and he said the only way was to
take dad out to the Coliseum, and in
the dark roll barrel of broken glass
down the tiers of seats and make him
believe there was an earthquake that
had destroyed the Coliseum, and that the
lions and tigers were all loose. looking
for people to eat, and scare dad and
make run back to town.
didn't want to play such ascandalous
trick on dad, but the Chicago man said
that was the only way out of it, and he
could get barrel of broken glass for a
dollar, and hire four ruffians that could
roar like lions for few dollars, and it
would give dad good exercise, and may
be save him from run of Roman fever,
cause there was nothing like a good
sweat to knock the fever out of a fell
lows system. The thing struck me as
not only good experience for dad, but
life saver, so whacked up the money,
and the Chicago soap man did the rest.
After dark We went out to the ruin of
the Coliseum, where great many tour
lists go to look at the ruins by moon
light, and dad was as anxious and blood
thirsty as young surgeon cutting up his
first 'stiff." When we got to the right
place, and told dad We were little
early, because the nobility were not in
their seats, the villains began to roar
three dollars worth, like hungry lions,
and dad turned little pale, and said
that sounded like the real thing.
told him we better not get TOO near,
because we were not accustomed to see
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1905-07-20
Arriving at a Verdict.

Kushequa, Pa, July lO.N(Special)-Iu
this section of Pennsylvania there is a
growing belief that for such Kidney Dis.
there is only one sure cure and that e is
Dodd's Kidney Pills. This belief grows
from such cases as that of Mrs. NJ. L.
Dawson of this place. She tells the story
herself as follows:-
Il have suffered from Rheumatism fo,
thirty. years and find that Dodd's Kidney
Pills have done me more good than any
medicine have ever taken. was also
bothered with Lame Back and l can only
say that my back hasn't bothered M
since took Dodd's Kidney Pills."
Considering that Mrs. Dawson only
took two boxes of Dodd's Kidney Pills
the result would be considered wonderful
if it were not that others are reporting
similar results daily. kushequa is fasi
arriving at verdict that "Dodd's Kid
ney Pills sre the one sure cure for Rheu
mstism."
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1905-07-20
FACTS ABOUT SUN SPOTS.
They Often Break Out and. Disappear
Under the Eye Of the 80
Observer.

That great sun spot that Chicagoans
were treated to recently did not smash
the record for bigness, even though II
did appear to do SO to those who looked
at it with naked eyes through Chicago's
smoke, says the News, of that city.
Some astronomers said that the spot
was 10000 miles across, and others that
it's diameter was $4,000 miles. But even
$4,000 miles would not. be the record
diameter. For, back in 1S43, when the
MilleriteS were looking for the end OF
the world, there was great sun spot
that to many seemed to lend weight to
the Millerites' arguments from the time
prophecies in the Bible. For week in
that year there was sun spot that was
visible to the naked eye. It measured
74,816 miles across. On the day of the
eclipse in 1858 spot 100000 miles in
extent was clearly seen. These spots
are considered to be storms in the glow
ing gases that correspond to the atmos-
phere of this earth. II there were ships
on the sun as large as this earth they
would be tossed about like autumn
lSdtSS Al Ill OCSdA SLOIu.
These solar spots are most abundant
on the two sides of the suns equator.
where they mark something akin to a
terrestrial cyclone belt. The center Of
a cyclone is rarefled and therefore cold
er. Cold on the sun is darkness. An
astronomer says that these cyclones
carry down into the depths of the solar
mass the cooler materials of the upper
layers. formed principally of hydrogen,
and thus produce in their center de-
cided extinction Of light and heat as
long as the gyratory movement lasts.
Finally the hydrogen, set free at the
base of the whirlpool, becomes reheated
at this great depth and rises up tumult-
uously, forming irregular jets, which
appear above the chromosphere.
Sun spots often break out or disap-
pear under the eye of the observer.
They divide like piece of ice dropped
on the surface of a frozen pond, the
pieces sliding of in every direction, or
they combine like separate foes driven
together into pack. Sometimes spot
will last for more than 200 days, through
six or eight revolutions of the sun.
Sometimes a spot will last only half an
hour.
"The velocities indicated by these
movements" writes Henry White War
rem, D. D., "are incredible. An uprush
and downrush ct the sides has been
measured Of 20 miles a second, a side
rush or whirl of 12O miles a second.
These tempests are over regions so wide
that our own Indian ocean is too small
to be used for comparison. AS they
ceare the advancing sides Of the spots
approach each other at the rate Of 20 900
miles an hour. They strike together and
the rising spray leaps Thousands Of miles
into space"
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1905-07-20
ToRTURING, DIsFIcURlNc
Humors, Eczemas, 1tchings, 1nflam-
nations, Burnings, scalings and
Chaangs Cured by Cuticura.

The agonizing itching and burning of
the skin, as in eczema; the frightful seal
ing, as in psoriasis; the loss Of hair and
crusting. Of the scalp, as in SCALED head
and ringworm; the awful suffering of in.
fants, and anxiety of WORKOUT parents,
as in milk crust, letter and salt rheum-
all demand remedy of almost superhu
man virtues to successfully cope with
them. That Cuticura Soap, Ointment and
Pills are such stands proven beyond all
doubt by the testimony of the civilized
vorld
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1905-07-20
AND IT BROUGHT on A REVOLUTION.

per, but the girls are just like the
cayenne pepper, SO warm that you waM
TO throw water on yourself after they
have touched you. Gee, but wouldn't
want to live in a climate! where girls
were torrid zone, cause I should melt,
= like an icicle that drops in stove, and
makes steam, and blows up the whole
house.
Well, old man, you talk about
churches, but you don't know anything
about it. Dad and went to st. Peters
in Rome, and it is the grandest thing in
the world. Say, the Congregational
church at home, which we thought SO
grand. could be put in one little corner
Of St. Peters, and would look like 80
cents. st. Peters covers ground about
kaf q mile square, and when you go in
side and look at grown people on the
other side of it, they look like flies, and
the organ is as big as block Of build
ings in Chicago, and when they blow it.
you think the last day has come, and
yet the music is as sweet as a melodeon,
and makes you want to get down on
your knees with all the thousands of
good Christians of Italy, and confess
that you are fraud, that ought to be
arrested.
Dad and have been to all kinds of
churches, everywhere, and never turned
hair, but since we got to this town, and
got some of the prevailing religion into
our systems, we feel guilty, and it seems
actho,1ph everybody could see right into
us. and that they knew we were heath
en-, that never knew there was God.
Sure thing, never supposed there were
so many people in the world that woz-
SHIPPED their Maker, as there are here,
and I don't wonder that all over the
world good people look to Rome for the
J. light. Dad keeps telling me that when
we get home we will set an example that
will make people pay attention, but he
says he does not want to join the church
until he has seen all the sights. and
, then he will swear off for good.
He said to me yesterday: "Now, Hen
merry, I have been to all the pious places
with you, the pope's residence, the cata-
combs and st. Peters, where they
preach from 40 different places. and
make you feel like giving up your sins.
and I have looked at carvings, and
decorations, and marble and jewels, and
seen the folly Of my ways Of life, and
am ripe for change, but before give
up the world and all Of Its wickedness.
want blood. want to 60 to the other
extreme. aud see the wild beasts at the
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1905-07-20

ing live men chewed up by beasts, and
dad said he didn't care how near we got,
as long as they chewed and tore to
pieces the natives; so we started to work
up a little nearer, when there was z
noise such as never heard before, as the
hogshead of broken glass began to roll
down the tiers of stone seats, and fell
over on the ground, and pushed dad. and
he went over in the sand and struck his
pants on a cactus, and yelled that 10 was
stabbed with dirk, and got NJ and
fell down again, and just then the Chi
cago soap man came up on q ATOP. fol-
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1905-07-20

Kidney Pills relieve
and cure it.
II. i. McCarver,
of 2O1 Cherry St.
Portland, Ore, in.
spector of freight
for the Trans-Con-
tinental Co., says :
"Iused Do;In's Kid
ney Pills for back.
ache and othe r
symptoms Of kid
ney trouble which
had annoyed me for
months. l think a
cold was RESPONSE
ble for the whole
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1905-07-20

trouble. 1t seemed TO settle in my kid
neys. Doan's Kidney Pills rooted it
out. It is several months since l used
them, and up to date there has been no
recurrence of the trouble
Doan's Kidney Pills are for sale by
all dealers, price SO cents per box.
Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1905-07-20
CONSTANT ACHING.

Back aches all the time. Spells your
appetite, wcaries the body, worries the
mind. Kidneys cause it all and Doan's
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1905-07-20
Ladies Can Wear Shoe

It's the economical man who never
wastes any words.-N. Y. Times.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1905-07-20
Che Bad Boy Makes Friends with Some
, Italian Children-Dad Is Chased
by Lions from the Coliseum-"Not
Any More Rome for Papa" Says
Dad.


Any More Rome for Papa" Says
Dad.
BIZ HON. GEORGE W. PECK. u
Ex-Governor of Wisconsin, Former Edit
or of Peck's Sun. Author Of .'Pecks
Bad Boy" etc.)
Copyright. 1906. by Joseph B. Bowles.)
ROME. ITALY-MY DEAR OLD
'PARD:" Well, sir, if you could see me
now, you wouldn't know me, because
foreign travel has broadened me out, SO
can talk on any subject, and people
of my age look upon me as an author
ity, and they surround me everywhere
60. and urge me to talk. The fact that
the boys and girls do not understand
word say. makes no difference. They
do not wear many clothes here, and there
Is no style about them, and when they
see me, with whole suit of clothes on.
and hat, and shoes and socks, and a
Gcarf-pin on my necktie, they think 1
must be an. Americana that is too rich
for any use, or something that ranks
with a prince at least, and the boys de-
sight to be with me, and do errands for
.ne, and the girls seem to be in lovewith
ee. ;.
There is no-way you can tell if girl
IS in love with you, except that she looks
ut you with eyes that are as black as
coal, and they seem to burn hole right
into your insides, and when they take
hold Of your hand they hang on, ana
squeeze like alamand-left, in q dance
at home, and they snug up to you, and
are as warm and cheerful as gas stove
Say, sat on bench in q plaza with a
girl about my age, for an hour, while
the other girls and boys sat on the
ground and looked at us in admiration.
and when put my arm around her and
kissed her on her pouting lips, It brought
on . revolution. An Italian soldier POI
liceman took me by the neck and threw
e}me across the street, the girl scratched
me with her finger nails and bit me, and
yelled some grand hailing sign Of dis
tress, her brother and a ragged boy that
was in love with the girl, and was jeal-
Gus, drew daggers, and the whole
crowd yelled murder, and started TO-:
our hotel on run, and the whole popu-
lation of Rome seemed to follow me, and
might as we'll have been a negro ac-
cused of crime in the states. thought
they would burn me at the stake, but
dad came out of the hotel and threw a
handful of small change into the crowd,
and It was all OF. g. ....y.
After they picked up the coin they
beckoned me to come out and play some
more, but not any more for little Hen
merry. I have been In love In all coun-
tries where We have Travelled. and in all
languages, but this Italian love takes
the whole bakery, and do not go around
any more without chaperone. The
girls are ragged, and wear shawls over
their heads, and there are holes in their
dresses and their skin isn't white, like
American girls, but is what they call
olive complexion, like stuffed olives yon
buy in bottles, stuffed with cayenne pep
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1905-07-20
Unusual.

"Why did she refuse him."
"She thought she could do better"
Glow strange! Girls seldom think
that until after the Town
Topics.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1905-07-20

Ladies' Can Wear Shoes
One size smaller after using Aliens Foot.
Ease. A certain cure for swollen, sweating,
hot, aching feet. AT all Druggists. 25c. Ac.
cept no substitute. Trial package FREE.
Address A. S. Olmsted. Le Roy, N. Y.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1905-07-20
-, Great aualitlee.

s1s 4 possible" asked the passenger .
the Mississippi river steamboat. looking q
the turbid, boiling fiood, that people ever
drink this water"
''Sir," said the lanky passenger with the
broad brimmed SLOUGH hat, ''you take =
glass of that water, let it settle, pour off
the clear fluid at the top, and it's the best
drinking water in the world
But the sediment at the bottom"
"You don't need to throw that away,
either. BY George, sir, it makes the best
and richest soil YOU ever saw.'-Chicago
Tribune
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1905-07-20

Sad widowhood.
Ella-Death is sad.
Stella-Yes, it is the divorce which
pays no alimony.-Town Topics.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1905-07-20

You can't always tell milk train By
its cowcatcher.-Chicago Sun.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1905-07-20

If man is coward he always claims
to be conservative.-Chicago Sun.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1905-07-20

The cause Of "the adj
vancement Of woman"
is steadily gaining
ground. Every year
brings its triumphs. In
the coeducational COL
leges it is the girls who
have carried off all the
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1905-07-20

There never was gasoline can stand
ing around with its lid off, but that some
where in the universe was some one with
q lighted match looking for it.--St. Louis
Globe Democrat.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1905-07-20
BACK TO NATURE

Return to the old-time whole
some wheat food of our fore-fathers.
Buy package of EGG .sEE ard
use it tomorrow morning.
When you dip your spoon into
its golden-brown flakes you will
realize that AT LAST there is a
delicious temrting dish made from
the whole wheat.
EGG-O.SEE is made from theper-
feet grains of the choicest white
wheat, containing ALL THE
Vital. ELEMENTS that make
for buoyant health and good
! digestion.
1t is Natures perfect food, and
satisfies your craving for some
thing good to eat.''
Perfect digestion means life
power, energy and robust we'll
being. Attain it by eating EGG.
O.SEE.
EGG-0-SEE is sold in alright,
inner-lined packages, insuring
purity and freshness.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1905-07-20
The White River Division.

Every time conccit is punctured char
aeter u strengthened.-Chica Tribune.
The Breckenridge news., 1905-09-27
Warned of Second Battle.

1t was more than a year later, Au-
gust %. 1852, that Mrs. DOgan. after
clearing up the breakfast dishes was
told by a staff officer of StOnewall
Jackson to move off her farm. as there
would be fighting there that day.
There had been heavy fighting the day
before around GAINESVILLE, three miles
down the pike. and the night before
Jackson had taken up his position
along the abandoned railroad bed from
GAINESVILLE to Sudley. and which passes
about 500 yards back of the DOgan
house. there to await the coming Of
LongStreet through ThOroughfare Gap
and the approach Of General Pope
with the Union army from the direc-
ton of Manassas. Mrs. l)ogan had
not reached her fathers house, two
miles away. when Union battery ana
supports took station near the Dogan
house and opened on JackSon's line.
All that ana the next day there was
fierce and bloody fighting around Grove
ton. OF the conditions there she
said:
Funeral parties of both armies
were burying the dead. though they
had not long been at this horrible
WORK. Inc NOIltutIdltS NuS iph-'
deep trenches and laid their men i'll
the ground that way. The Union
burial parties only shoveled mounds
of dirt over the bodies where they
lay. and two or three days later a
heavy rain made the field hideous.
When the children and | got home
parties of men We're collecting the
wounded and putting them in rows
here in the yard and wherever there
was shade. Doctors were cutting OH
legs and arms and the moaning was
awful. They hadn't brought in all the
wounded. There were hundreds scat
tered all around the farms. The emil
dren and / took buckets of water our
into the fields and we worked that
way all day and into the night, doing
what we could for the poor fellows
Most Of the wounded on our farm
were Yankees, but that didn't MAKE
any difference to us after they got
hurt. All our bed sheeting and table
linen went for bandages.'