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The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1905-11-23

mostly to blame, am about ready to have
q little sympathy for the mistress class,
to consider them now the under dog.
hold them now the victims. But in this
sketch l intend to blame no one: Just
present a glimpse Of household difficult
ties. Ill call nobody names, I'll try to
smile over vexations and hindrances.
I advertise for maid, and receive
immediate reply that there is an expert
enced high-class Swedish girl awaiting
my pleasure: she will call upon me. She
does not call. Igo,to the Address given
in the advertisement. 1t proves an In.
telligence ONCE. q close, unclean place
presided over by . most untidy female.
Yes, the high-class Swede is here. She
enters, a young, moderately nice-look-
ing girl. At once the questions begin.
The answers seem satisfactory, and she
agrees to accompany me to my home and
look the ground over. But second
thought strikes her, she interrogates
farther:> "'Who in your family?" MY
mother and two sisters" She turns
from me, reseats herself, remarks to tho
manager of the Office: 20, 1 won't go
there; I don't want to go any place
where there's no man." Sadder and
wiser, l wend my solitary way home.
have advertised for maid. now I
must advertise for man.
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m q q, grOcerman,

butterman, the half-dozen and so gen.
tlemen that knock frequently at the
back door. A personal acquaintance
with these is desirable; they are the
confidantes of "the girls" they know
the secrets of many households; If "she"
is satisfactory, what wages ''she" pays.
what kind of presents are to be expect
ed; the good and bad points of many q
place. And they act as middle men, OBJ
tain for apparently desirable mistress
apparently desirable maid. 1t helps
their custom. they feel the satisfaction
Of having performed noble deed.
The girls lacking the kind Offices of
the business gentlemen mentioned. start
out themselves in pursuit of the ideal
situation. On the day of they make the
campaign. answer advertisements or
congregate in employment Offices.
Thursday here in Chicago is the day
they are abroad in numbers, and 1t is Of
much interest, though also of depres-
sion, to stand by and watch the employ
ment Office play. Here is young Swede
who can say barely more that is INTEL
ligible to the American mistress than
ia and No and IS. She knows abso-
lutely nothing Of American house,
keeping, very little Of any kind of house,
keeping, but she is tremendously sure
she is worth five dollars.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1905-11-23
THE BOY SPOKE TOO SOON
Elated Over Passing Bad Half-Dol-
lar and Spells Mothers
Scheme.

W. Caryl Ely. of Buffalo. the presl-
dent Of the American Street Railway
association, was talking. during the
convention in Philadelphia. about mo-
tormen's and conductors adventures.
"A conductor came to me with .
smiling face the other day." he said.
He wanted to tell me what had hap.
pened on an incoming car.
ut seems that middle-aged woman
and her little son. lad OF six or seven
wears. got on the car. and. as soon as
they we're seated. the woman took q
half-dollar out of her pocket and hand
ed 1t to the youngster to pay the fare
with.
1.-The boy held the coin in his small.
fat hand, and examined It closely and
solemnly.
"The conductor appeared for the
fares, and the youngster gave him the
half-dollar with owlish solemnity.
1.-THE money was pocketed and 40
cents in change was put in thu small
extended hand.
"As soon az he got this change the
boy laughed and shouted gleefully:
oh. ma. he's taken the bad half
dollar
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1905-11-23

Q block Of stock in a circus and
menagerie. went into it to help
some young circus fellows, and put
up quite bunch of money, because
they were honest and poor. and for
q few years things went wrong, and
thought my money was gone. but for
the last six years the circus has paid
dividends bigger than Standard Oil,
and to-day it stands away up among
the financial successes, and the divi-
dends on my circus stock is better
than any bank stock have got. and
It comes just like finding money. The
company decided at its annual meet
ing to invite me to take the position
of one of the managers, and I shall
soon go to the winter quarters Of the
show, to arrange to put it on the road
about the Ist of May. Now any re-
marks nay be made. pro or con. In
regard to my sanity, see?"
Well, ma swallowed something
crosswise down her Sunday throat,
and choked, and pa swatted her on
the back so she would cough 1t up.
and when she could speak she said:
'.Pa, do you have to wear tights, and
Jump through hoops on the back OF
= hossA and cut up didoes. 1t your
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VICTIM OF THE FAMILY.
Having Made a Fortune, This Old
Man Is Now Under
Discipline.

Every morning at nine o'clock PR,
cisely an old gentleman, walking With
the aid Of . stout cane, enters saloon
and takes q seat in q corner where
he is comparatively safe from observa.
ton, says the New York Press. The
bartender, without asking questions.
carries to him q cigar and . drink
Of whisky, and the old gentleman
smokes and sips in apparent content
ment. Just before the cigar is fin.
ished he takes another drink. Then he
walks slowly down to Riverside drive
and sits in shady spot until lunch
time. when he enters fine mansion
near by and Is seen no more until the
following morning.
That's funny case." said the bar
tender, as the old gentleman went out
after his customary cigar and drinks.
"He's a retired banker and lives in
luxury. He has large family and
they have everything they wish for.
But the old man Is looked upon as .
sort Of necessary evil about the house.
He is not permitted to smoke in the
house, and as for drinking-why. any
member Of the family would have q At
II they saw anything Of an alcoholic
nature on the premises.
"Now that he has made the money
which supports them, they relegate the
old man to the rear, and he is at that
age where he hasn't spirit to rebel. So
he comes in here every day and
.sneaks' his drink and smoke and goes
back home contented. Aip't III 4.
queer world?"
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Oklahoma Postmaster Quits His Job
So He May Go Out After
Game.

DR.. Stephen Call. an octogenarian
resident of Ingalls,. In eastern Okla
homa. boasts that he has killed moro
coons than any other living man. and
although an octogenarian. DR.. Call still
follows the sport.
DR.. Call learned to burn powder with
Gen. Lew Wallace in Mexico during
the war with that country, and later
he followed this same leader through
the civil war. In addition to, being
through two wars he has had three
wives.
The time Of year is rapidly approach
ing when coons are the "ripest." &C.
cording to this veteran hunter. and
this winter will be spent, as have all
those in the past, hunting in the
woods.
When there was a vacancy in tho
post Office at ingalls, several years ago
DR.. Call won the place with ease. But
the position was too binding. He soon
employed another man to look after
the affairs Of the Office, so that no
could hunt. Recently he resigned the
office, stating that he could not find the
time to give both it and hunting coons
the attention they required.
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absent treatment for what ais US, and
pack the money I shall send you In
bales with hay press, and put it in
cold storage till we come back in the
fall. 1t is settled, We go to conquer.
and the world will lay at our feet be-
fore the middle of August, and you
will be a proud woman to own q
husband who will be pointed at as the
most successful amusement purveyor
the world has ever witnessed, and q
son who will start in at the bottom
round of the circus ladder and rise,
step by step, until he will stand be-
side the great Barnum."
Ma thought seriously for a few min
utes. and then she said: 20, pa, If
1t was anything but the circus bust
ness you and Hennery went into, like
selling soap or being bank default
er, or something respectable, could
look the neighbors in the face, but
of course If there is money in it, and
you feel that the good Lord has called
you to the circus field. and you will
see that Hennery does not stay out
nights, and Hennery will promise to
see that you put on . clean collar &C.
casionally, and you will promise mo
that you will not let any of those cir
Gus women in spangles make eyes at
you, I will consent to your going with
the circus, just this once, as the doc
tor has advised that you lead an &C.
tive life, and I guess you will get Il
travelling with q circus, for 1t nearly
killed me that time I took Hsnnery
to see the animals, and the tent blew
down, and we got separated. and the
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1t 10 the keeping tho machinery OF living
going that induces the woeful state OF
mind.
At this time of year all the servants
are moved to desert their former place
of service, to seek new kitchens, new
chambers, other mistresses. We
have tried to analyze this accom-
paniment Of the falling of the
leaves, but have not been able to salts
factorily. Is it that the keen autumn
air makes them frisky and restless and
ambitious. does 1t give them Utopian
dreams of "a place" where there is to
be plenty Of money and the lightest of
labor? We cannot, cannot say; If We
could diagnose correctly, arrive at q
remedy, our fortune and fame would be
assured. At present We are able only
to contemplate the exodus and initia-
ton.
In Chicago most Of the servants are
Scandinavians, everywhere one comes
across Swedish and Norwegian maid;
g0lden-haired, pink-cheeked young
women of apparent health and muscle.
But it is wonderful how America seems
to affect them, how quickly these girls
that at home toiled in field and on noun
tain side become unable to handle Or
binary household tasks. When they
first arrive they attack homework with
willing hand, the observer enjoys their
splendid strength, the strength that
seems to make nothing of sweeping and
securing and baking and brewing; but
little while and they have learned from
their fellow immigrants Of longer resi-
dence that America is a land where the
servant girl need not strive to please.
that American mistresses are indulgent.
And, 10, a great change occurs. Hilda
and Alma discover they cannot do the
washing, ironing is really too hard for
them; polishing windows impossible.
Assistants here, assistants there, must
be brought in; the householder's money
all is spent in the luxury of servants.
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out for Canada some Saturday night,
after the bank closes, and on Monday
morning they find the combination Of
the lock on the safe changed, and
when they hire a reformed burglar to
open the lock the money is all gone
with the cashier. Those are the only
people that ever kept q successful
diary.
But I had to promise ma that I
would keep diary, 80 she could read
It, or never could have got her con-
sent for me to go with pa on the road
with a circus. All ma asks Of me is
to tell the truth about everything that
happens to me and to pa during the
whole summer, and I have consented,
and can see my finish, and pas fin
fish. and mas finish, and the finish Of
the circus that is going to take us
along.
Gee. but We have had hot time at
our house since pa and I got back
from our trip abroad. brought pa
back IN better health than he was
when We went away, but he has got
SO accustomed to excitement that
knew something would be doing pref
ty soon, SO was not surprised when
he told US at the breakfast table that
he supposed he should have to go and
travel with q circus this summer.
Ma looked at pa as though she
wanted to call the police, and an am
bulance to take him to the emergency
hospital. He looked at ma and at
me, speared another wafIle, and said:
Fl know you will think I am nutty,
but for almost ten years have had
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1905-11-23

and the order was carried out with abil-
ity and dispatch. So gladly learn that
the Jap steward and China boy have
penetrated to Chicago; speedily there
after search the advertising columns.
This is what leone upon:
Situation Wanted.-Japanese, relia-
BILE, first-class butler in respectable fam
lily; neat; neat; finest worker; ref.
Yamasaki Alas, Yamasaki, the butler
proposition overpowers me. And read
ing Japanese advertisements further
does not give me what seek--although
it gives me amusement:
Situation Wanted.-Japanesc highest
butler, in highest great family: SO neat
and bright; best reference.
All, are We finding the c1ew? Is It
that maid and valet and butler are
searching for the highest. great FAM
ily?" Does 1t make for them rise So
cially, that rise for which they all como
to America, land of striving aris-
tocracy?
The situation grows more and more
hopeless. We are lost in its thick fog.
KATHERINE POPE
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with the blonde good looks; until spoiled
they have respectful address, not nee.
essarily servile, just decently respect
full. And the ignorant bride. or new
housewife Of any sort. looking at a
friends menage says: 20. l. too. must
get me just such a piece Of perfection as
Hilda or Alma: straightway will ad-
vertise and, to make assurance doubly
sure, will register at an employment Of
fee"
The bride, or new housewife Of any
kind, seats herself Of q Thursday to
await with confidence the arrival Of
the perfect maid, who is to at once step
into her new quarters and at once begin
the role Of perfect maid. The reality
does not fit the vision; they come. but
not to be INTERCEPTED. to interrogate.
They do the questioning. they pass the
judgment: what time 10 to tinner?"
How many in te family?" "The yani-
toor clean te rugs and wash windows?"
The ardor dampened. the employment
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1905-11-23

800 yards Handy set the new mark
at 4:zS. the previous record being held
by C. NJ. Daniels, of the New York Ath-
letic club, at 4:29. After the race Alex
Meffert, director of the Missouri Ath-
letic club, on behalf of Schwarz, chal-
lenged Handy, through his manager.
Frank Sullivan, to return match In
the Missouri clubs tank. The most
important feature of the contest was
the competition between two entirely
different strokes as swum by Handy
and Schwarz. Schwarz swims the dou-
BILE overland. otherwise called tho
four-arm stroke He takes four strokes
two with each arm-to every kick he
makes. Handy is an exponent of the
new crawl stroke. Schwarz is big and
powerful and depends largely upon his
heavy legs for motive power Handy.
on the other hand. relies solely upon
his arms, allowing his legs to trail mo-
tionless behind him, that all his blood
may go to his upper limbs. At present
he is the only man IN the world who
swims in this manner to any extent.
So revolutionary and firing is this new
stroke that outside Of Goodwin. OF
New York, no man has been able to
hold it for over 100 yards. and he can
| not keep it up beyond the furlong dis
lance, though even such performance
has been marveled at by the east. One
man, an Australian. once covered
quarter of mile using the stroke, but
was unable to introduce the element
of speed in connection. Centrals wa
ter DEVIL" as he is called. has not only
swum the Furnishing method for mile.
but has gone so far as to use 1t In COM
petition for the championship at that
distance at New York this summer.
The recent race with the St. Louis
| star was the first fair chance Handy
had to show what he could do with the
new method of propulsion. as his for
mcr performances with it have been
over strange courses, under which
conditions no swimmer is expected to
do his best.
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t1ns e life. FOR Y 20 % I -
1oeUance."
Pa vs. calm, ana did noe ~ OF the
handle. but - Just said. kindly:
Mother. you have vague ideas Of tie
duties Of the owners Of . circus. The
owners hire performers to Do stunts.
and break their necks. while We man
age them, and take In the shekels
from the Reubens who come into town
on circus day. We proprietors touch
the button. and the actors and ami
mails do the rest. I shall b = director
who directs, q man who sets . digni-
fed and pious example to the men and
women who adorn the profession,
coming IS they do from all climes,
and your pa will be the guide. philoo-
opher and friend Of al who belong to
the grandest aggregation Of talent
ever gathered under one canvas.
at one price Of admission, and do not
fail to witness the concert which will
be given under this canvas after the
main performance 10 over"
Ma looked at pa pretty savage. and
said: 20, I see. you are going to be
ringmaster, but what is to become OF
Hennery and me while you are crack
ing your whip around the hind legs
Of the fat woman, and ogling the Cir
cassian beauty"
Pa put his hand on my head and
said: Mother, Hennery will go with
me, to see that I do not get into any
trouble as . circus fnancier and gen
eral manager of the menagerie and
Wild West aggregation. and hippo.
drome, in the great three-ring circus,
and you can stay home and give "a
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SCIiWARZ.

30 minutes, all the swimmers began
using the side stroke. and it was not
long before the novices we're contest
ing in this manner. After l intro
duced the side stroke and established
the record for q mile," said Meffert,
"all the swimmers took it up, and for
eight or ten years it was the leading
style of swimming in this country. The
others had always been using the
breast stroke and underarm side
stroke, but most of the swimmers
found the side stroke easier and soon
adopted 1t. About ten years ago w. C.
Johnson, of the New York Athletic
club, won the 1oo-yard championship
with the trudgeon stroke. which is now
so popular with the swimmers. After
! he introduced this new stroke the side
motion saw its decline and the shorter
distance swimmers began learning the
trudge. 1t went well at first for tho
short distances, but many pronounced
II too firing for mlle. Several SWIM
mers finally mastered 1t for the big
distances and about five years ago be-
gan swimming mile. After the trudge
had been mastered for q mile most
swimmers thought 1t was the greatest
stroke ever introduced, and four-fifths
Of all swimmers were soon using it.
The trudge did not prove the last Of
the stroke. however but the crawl was
introduced. Many crack short distance
swimmers are now using this stroke,
but very few have mastered 1t for the
mile. At first it was very firing for
so yards, but finally worked up to 100.
AS was the case with the trudgeon, It
is very likely that the crawl will be
used in mile championships soon. In
the 20 years the mile record has been
greatly reduced. but believe that the
side stroke will become the popular
stroke in the course of few years.
The present record for mile is about
26: AZ, recently made by Daniels in tho
New York championship meet. Pre-
yious to that Rausch, the German, had
held the mile record with 27:1S, which
he made at the worlds fair in 1904.
Announcement has been made that
N. w. Savage owner Of Dan Patch. has
bought Ed Patch. 2:0SA. from Edgar
Beeming, of Danville. Ind, for 5000.
He has proved the fastest Of the get
Of Dan Patch.
Arthur Duffy the, worlds champion
sprinter, has caused quite q sensation
in the athletic world by an article
in which the champion II quoted -
saying that the expenses received by
star athlete on ''pot-hunting trip"
are sufficient to take q man around
to the principal cities Of the world.
Duffey has been champion since 1898
and during the past seven years he has
held high place Of honor among ama-
teur athletes, although. according to
the latest news, he has been . psofes.
Sional all the while.
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mel.
ancholy days have
come, the saddest
of the year by far.
You have returned
from the country
place to take up
again life in the
city. That fact in
itself need not be
regarded in q sor-
rowfulv light, for
the city In winter
has much to offer;
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assaey b visited. Here dixs0uNGsnsu0
deepens, en- masse Hilda ana Alma are
oyerpowering: en- masse, awfu! Judges.
whose lowering. suspicious looks convict
the fainting mistress at once: all appar-
ently high priced specialists who scorn
your modest price.
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April 10, 1861 never thought 1t
would come to this, that L should keen n
diary, because am not good little boy.
Nobody ever keeps q diary except q
boy that wants to be an angel. and with
the angels stand, OF a girl that Is in
love. or IN old maid that can't catch
. man unless she writes down her
emotions and leaves them around 40
some man will read them, and swallow
the bait and not feel the hook in his
gills. or . truly good bank cashier
who teaches Sunday school, and slipe
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1905-11-23
4 MODERN PROBLEM
WnogR soIvr1oH WOULD BEING
FAME AID FORTUNE.
SERVANTS
Eject Of Transplanting on Scandina.
VANS Gross Questioning the
Mistress-Ordeal Of Intel
ligence Once.
= COMMUNICATIONS

1.-THE King vas in the counting-houss
Counting up his money:
The Queen was in the kitchen
Eating bread and honey;
The maid was in the garden
Hanging up the clothes.
When along came neighbor and offered
her dollar month more wages.
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Oriental to the Rescue.

nee l dwelt In .
tropic land where
there was no serv-
ant question. per-
haps for that rea-
son called the Para.
disc Of the Pacific.
T b ore, noiseless,
white-robed, deft-
handed China boys
and Jap stewards
ministered to ones
needs. You gave
them All Or(lerOnco
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place the other
night betweea Ho-
mer J. Handy. oe
Chicago. champion
Of the Central A.
A. u. and Mar
guard Schwarz, 6
the Missouri Ath.
letic club Of st.
Louis, western A.
A. U. champion, 1t
the Central Y. NJ.
CA. natatorium in
Chtcag go. Tho
crack little Chica-
go swimmer won
the race. which
was for q quarter
of q mile. Incident-
ally he broke the
national record for
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Rack Up!

scrappy-Do you call that thing on
your head q hat?
Mrs. scrappy-Do you call that thing
In your hat Q head?-Nfe.
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The Search Continued.

]ANhA4 lucv 90 70
and fro In search OF
the golden girl,
women with money
and women with
but moderate in.
come. I. who have
written statistical,
studied themes on
the Servant Prob.
lem. W b o h a v .
called it really .
mistress problem.
tho miSfro 900
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A New Place.

HEY take all the
money and they
take French leave
too. 1t is danger
Gus for the mistress
to feel safe. she
must be ever on
the qui vive to pre-
pare for q change.
It were well II
she. like the serv-
ants, stood in with
milkman, coffee
m an grOcerman
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Copyright By III 8ovie..l

The BAD Boy Begins . Diary-Dad
Has Become Manager for Circus
The BAD Boy Expects to Curry
the Hyena and Do Stunts ON the
Trapeze-Ma Says Pa viii ogle the
circassian Beauty-Pa Buys Some
Circus Clothes and Lets His Whi.-
kers Grow.
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The Search for tho Golden Girl.

FTER an average
good housewife has
had the Swede and
Norw e gian in
training q few
weeks. the Swede
and Norwegian as
q rule are attrac-
tive in appearance,
q neat and dainty
part Of the house,
hold. The neat uni
form. the coquet-
fish aprons 20 we'll
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SPORTS AND
ATHLETICS

The entire equatic world ~ inter
ested In the big match raco which took