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The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1905-06-15

every cent We had gambling. Well,
we wondered about it all night, and
had our breakfast sent up to our room,
and had it charged, expecting that
when the bill came in we would have
to jump into the ocean, as We had no
gun to kill ourselves with. Just after
breakfast duke, or something, came
to our room, and dad said it was all
of, and he called upon the Dakota
man to make a speech on politics,
while dad and skipped out. We
thought the duke, who was the mana
ger of the hotel, would not UNDER
stand the speech. and would think we
were great people, who had got
stranded.
The Dakota man started in on a
democratic speech that he used to de-
liver in the campaign of 80, and in
half an hour the duke held up his
hands, and the Dakota man let up on
the speech. Then the duke took out
a roll of bills and said: "Ze shentle-
men is what you call bust. Is it not
so?" Daid said he could bet hts life
it was so. Then the duke handed
the roll of bills to dad, and said IL
was a tribute from the prince of
Monaco, and that We we're lis guests,
and when our stay was at an end, AUTO
mobiles would be furnished for us to
go to Nice, where we could cable home
for funds. and be happy.
Well. when the duke left US, dad
said: wouldn't that skin you?" and
he gave the Dakota man one of the
bills to try or the bartender, and
when he found the money was good
we ordered an automobile and skipped
out for Nice. The chauffeur could not
understand English. SO we talked over
the situation and decided that the only
way to be looked upon as genuine au-
tomobilists would be to wear goggles
and lock prosperous and mad at
everybody. We took turns looking
mad at everybody we passed on the
road, and got it down so fine that peo-
pie picked up rocks after We had
passed and threw them at us, and then
We knew that we were succeeding in
being considered genuine, rich auto
mCE1le tourists.
After we had succeeded for an hour
or two in convincing the people that
we were properly heartless and purse
proud, dad said the only thing we
needed to make the trip success was
to run over somebody. He said nearly
all the American automobile tourists
in Europe had killed somebody and
had been obliged to settle and sup
port a family or two in France or
Italy, and they were prouder of it than
they would be if they endowed uni
versity, or built church, and he said
he trusted our chauffeur would not be
too careful in running through the
country, but would at least cripple
some one.
Well. Just before We got to Nice. and
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1905-06-15
BEFORE THE OLD MAINE LAW
Anecdote Is Told of Struggle for
Prohibition in the Pine
Tree State.

N. F. Woodbury., the Maine repre-
sentative of the prohibition national
committee, was talking about the
political fights for total abstinence
that have from time to time stirred
up his state I'm the past" said Mr..
Woodbury., before Maine had been
won over to prohibition, there used to
be a village-a bleak, gray village on
the coast-where the contests over the
liquor question were always hot. In
this village, as election day drew near,
each party would try to do Guido the
other. If one side paraded 100 strong
the other side paraded 200 strong. II
one side held a mass meeting and en-
ployed a band, the other side would
hold a mass meeting with a band and
a lunch as we'll. There was one liquor
saloon in the village. and a week be-
fore certain election placard as big
as the entire front Of the house was
raised before it. This enormous plac-
ard said in huge rel letters: If the
prohibition law passes this house Will
be closed The saloon. you see. was
coy and inviting to such as liked a
glass of beer, and the purpose OF the
placard was to put sorrow and fear
into the breasts of drinking men. to
stir them up to win votes, lest their
pleasant meeting place be taken from
them. That was the idea of the plac-
ard, and it was good idea. But in the
dead of the night certain odd noises
were heard, and thu next morning the
enormous placard covered the front OF
the village poorhouse."
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1905-06-15
M.+chinp collars and Belt.

It is quite the thing to wear match
ing collars and belts. A fashionable
haberdasher is showing very great
variety of stocks AMI belts to wear
with shirtwaists and shirtwaist suits.
With white suits nothing could be bet
ter than white linen, plain or embroid-
ered These are exquisitely made and,
although anything but cheap, are so
trim and stylish that they make the
gown fine and we'll justify the price
paid for them. A novelty in these
stock and belt sets comes in all colors
as we'll as white. The material is a
fine silk braid in loose basket weave.
The belt is wide at the back and is
meant to crush. The fastening is a
round buckle in brass or gun metal.
The neckpiece is not stock at all, ac-
curately speaking, but a four-in-hand
tie to wear with linen collar.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1905-06-15

things, ana the aext 0uenlng ~ ssasS
ed. Dad wanted me to stay 1t the sta
ton . couple Of days. while he vas
gone, and play with the goats. but I
told him Il there were any places In
the mountains or glaciers any moro
dangerous than Paris or Monte Carlo.
wanted to visit them. SO he let me 90.
Well. We were rugged up for discover
ing the north pole. and had alpen-
stocks to push ourselves up with, and
the guides had ropes to pull us up
when we got to places where we
couldn't climb. could get dong all
right, but they had dad on rope most
of the time pulling him until his
tongue run out and his face turned
blue. But dad was game. and don't
you forget it.
Before noon we got on top OF q
glazier, which is the ice Of frozen
river, that moves all the time. sliding
towards the sea. There was nothing
but a hard winter, in summer, to the
experience, and we would have gone
back the same night. only dad slipped
down crevice about 100 feet with the
rope on him, and the two guides
couldn't pull him up. and we had to
send lunch down to him on the rope
and one of the guides had to go back
to the village for help to get dad up.
Well, sir, think dad was nearer dead
than he ever was before. but they sent
down bottle of brandy. and when he
drank some of it the snow began to
melt and he was warm enough 70 use
bad language.
He yelled to me that this was the
limit and wanted to know how long
they were going to keep him there. I
yelled to him that one Of the guides
had gone for help to pull him out, and
he said for them to order yoke OF
oxen. told him that probably he
would have to remain there until
spring opened and that was going
back to America and leave him there,
and he better pray. I don't know
whether dad prayed. down there in the
bowels of the mountains, but he didn't
pray when help came. and they finally
hauled him up. His breath was gone.
but he gave those guides some IAN
guage that would set them to think
ing if they could have understood
him, and finally we started dowa the
mountain They kept the rope on dad
and every little while he would slip
and slide 100 feet or so down the
mountain on his pants. and the snow
would go up his trousers legs clear to
his collar, and the exercise made him
so hot that the steam came out of his
clothes. and he looked like locomo-
tive wrecked in snow bank blowing
of steam.
1t became dark and expected We
would be killed. but before midnight
we got to the station and changed our
clothes and paid off the guides and
took a train back Dad said to me, as
we got on the cars: Nov. Hennery. I
have done this glazier stunt. just to
show you that brave man. whatever
his age. is equal to anything they can
propose in Europe, but by ginger this
settles 1t, and now want to go where
things come easier I am now going
to Turkey and see how the Turks wor-
~ along. Are you with me?" "You
bet your life," says I. Yours truly.
HFNNERY
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1905-06-15
Plenty of Palaces.

The car of Russia and the emperor
of Germany might, If they please, dis
pute with each other as to which of
the two owns the greater number of
palaces. Each might sleep in differ
ent house every night for a month and
not exhaust the number of his various
dwelling places. The car is said to
own many country seats-which are
kept up in every detail, furnished and
furnished, and crowded with servants
into which he has never set foot.
King Edward, of England, while occu-
plying regularly but four, has dozen
or more homes, which are ready for
him at all times.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1905-06-15

SO much about is no better than lakes
all over Wisconsin. and there are no
black bass or muskellunges in it.
The tourists here are just daffy
about climbing mountains and glaciers,
and they talk about it all the
time, and could see dads finish.
They told him that no American
that ever visited Switzerland would
be recognized when he got home
if he had not climbed the glaciers, so
dad arranged for trip up into the
sky. We went 100 miles or SO on
the cars, passing along valleys where
all the cows wear tea bells. and it
sounds like chimes in the distance. It
is beautiful in Switzerland, but the
cheese is something awful. A piece of
native Swiss cheese would break up
family.
At night we arrived at a station
where we hired guides and clothes. and
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1905-06-15
Ian aenerals in the Field.

Frederick Palmer, the correspondent,
who has been with Gen. Kuroki in the
field, says in his recently published
book: "Gen. Kuroki spent most of his
time in the shade. Gen. Full, the chief,
went to sleep in the thick of the fight
On the I'd. He had worked most of the
night planning for that day. He could
not make the work of our infantry any
easier or make the fire of our guns any
more accurate by watching them.
When he was wanted he could be
awakened"
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1905-06-15

How often do we hear women say: ut
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or Don't speak to me, 1 am all out Of
sorts?" These signi6cantremarksp prove
that the system requires attention.
Backache and I" the blues" are direct
symptoms of an inward trouble which
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some uterine derangement. Nature
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powers in all those peculiar ailments of
women. 1t has been tho standby of
intelligent American women for twenty
years. and the ablest specialists agree
that it is the most universally success
full remedy for woman's ills known to
medicine.
The following letters from Mrs.
Holmes and Mrs. Cotrely are among
the many thousands which Mrs. Pink
ham has received this year from those
whom she has relieved.
| Surely such testimony is convincing
Mrs. JIG. Holmes, Of Larimore, North
Dakota, writes:
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Ny backaches and headachesare all gone and
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whereas before took Lydia =. Pinkham's
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Mrs. Emma Cotrely, 1os East 18th
Street, New York City, writes:
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The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1905-06-15

house where people must live. has a.
ways been TO me an unsolvable problem.
Mysterious corners are in order in
cob-webbed attic or an underground
cellar, but they are seriously out oil
place in pleasant room into which
visitors are ushered. and which is sup
posed to be = rallying spot for the
family.
Light does no harm. Although the
strong rays OF the sun may somewhat
impair the first freshness OF uphol-
stery, yet they tone down crudeness
of color. and in the end are an lm-
provement Throw open the windows
and glorify the room.' was the cheer
full order for the day Of Sydney Smith.
Ones spirits are apt to go down IN
dull. dark crypt-like room; they rise
10 sparkle and effervescence when the
sunbeams come dancing in, and the
house looks glad and gay.
1t is wonderful how ones things re-
spond to ones mood. Certain easy
chairs welcome you to their embrace
when you are tired out, and rest you
almost as if they knew they were do
ing it; they seem to have caught the
spirit of the house, and have a per-
sonality of their own.
Certain chairs and footstools belong
to certain people. knew dear old
lady, blind for years, who always oc-
cupied one corner of large and COM
Portable sofa. Children and grand
children were careful not to usurp this
throne of the serene and beautiful
matron, who dwelt in the dark, but
liked to have everything CHEEKY about
her. Sometimes a stranger, not know
ing the traditions of the home, would
install herself in the mothers place,
but was always gently conducted to
another seat. The setting of that
house was not perfect unless the moth
er took her accustomed place. When
she was gone forever, the mistress of
the house rearranged every room. and
carried that sofa to another part OF her
domain. She felt that. for awhile at
least, no one else could sit there; the
old sofa in her thought was sacred and
would almost feel profaned If used by
others than the one to whom 1t had
belonged, through so many pleasant
seasons.
All this OF course IS sentiment, and
Mr.. Gradgrind does not understand It,:
with his incessant demand for facts
and statistics. he cannot enter into the
Joy that comes from feeling. Yet feel
ing is the chrism of life.
1t is possible to make too much of
life's setting, as l have said, and to
spend so much labor on externals that
those is no time for satisfaction in the
inner life, but while women continue
to be queens regnant in their homes,
they will take pleasure in having the
homes beautiful, neat, harmonious,
and to some degree sumptuous. 1t is
their privilege thus to do. A home is
not penitentiary, nor a counting
room, nor a shop; 1t is, as | said at
first the background whence we issue
into the open for business or pleasure.
1t is our fortress against all invaders.
our refuge in distress. In the day OF
calamity AMI disaster, we hide our
selves at home. In the day of triumph
and good fortune, we invite our friends
to rejoice with us there. We are with
in the bounds of reason in making the
| setting of a home as beautiful Us we
can
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1905-06-15

knees and tried to say a prayer, the
Dakota man held up both hands like it
was stage being held up, and cried
Finally the chauffeur said, in broken
English, that the husband would set
tie for $500. because he could pay
the funeral expenses, get another wife
for half the money and have some
thing left to lay up for Christmas.
AS the mans gun was pointed at dad,
he quit praying and gave up the
money and agreed to send $50 a
month for IL years, until the Oldest
child was of age.
Well, we got away, alive, got into
Nice, and the chauffeur started back
and We cabled home for money to be
sent to Geneva, Switzerland. But,
say; you have not heard the sequel.
A story that has a sequel is always
the best, and hope to die II the po-
lice of Nice didn't tell us that we were
buncoed by that old woman and that
the chauffeur was in the scheme and
got part Of dads money The way
they do it is to wait till dark. and then
roll the woman in the dust and put
some red ink ON her face, and she pre-
tends to be run over. and the doctor
is hired by the month, and. they average
$500 night. playing that game on au-
tomobile tourists from America. After
the woman is run over every night.
and the money is collected, and the
victims have been allowed to go on
their way, the whole community gath
ers at the house of the injured wom-
an and they have celebration and q
dance. and probably our chauffeur got
back to the house that night in time
to enjoy the celebration. I suppose
thousands Of Americans are paying
money for killing people that never
got scratch.
Say. we think in America that we
have plenty of ways to rob the tender
foot, but they give us cards and spades
and little casino and beat us every
time. Dad wanted to hire a hack and
go back and finish that old woman
with an ak, because he said he had a
corpse coming to him, but the police
told him he could be arrested for
thinking murder, and that he was
dangerous man. and that they would
give him IL hours to get out of France,
and so We bought tickets for Switzer-
land. though what we came here for
l don't know. only dad said it was
republic like America and he wanted
to breathe the free air of mountains
in the home of the Switzerkase.
Well, anybody can have Switzerland
if they want it. ! will sell my inter-
est cheap. The first three days we
were here everybody wanted us to go
out on the lake, said to be the most
beautiful lake in the world, and we
sailed on it, and rowed on it, and
looked down into the clear water
where it is said you can see corpse
on the bottom of the lake 100 feet
down. We hadn't lost any corpse, ex-
cept the corpse of that old woman we
run over at Nice. but we wanted to get
the worth of our money, so we kept
looking for days, but the search for a
corpse becomes tame after awhile, and
we gave it up. All we saw in the bot
tom of the lake was a COW, but no man
can weep properly over the remains
Of COW, and dad said they could go
to the deuce with their corpses, and
we just camped at the hotel till our
money came. Say, that lake they talk
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1905-06-15

first of all, simple. in order to be serv-
iceable. The dress shown here is just
the thing for playing about the house
and yard, wearing to school. or serving
any little lass upon ordinary occasions.
1t may be easily made and is suitable
to any material. For medium size
three and half yards Of 36-inch ma
terial are required.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1905-06-15

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The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1905-06-15
Big Land Concession.

G.. C. Probasco, of Los Angeles. CAL,
has concession to survey all the publlc
lands in the state of Sinaloa. Mexico, ag-
gregating more than 20,000,00O acres.
Under the terms Of the concession the
government will grant to Probasco one
third of all the lands he surveys. This
is expected to be 100000 acres. Pro-
basco and associates have in view Amer
lean colonization.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1905-06-15
Lesson from japan,

From the japanese we are slowly
learning not to bunch miscellaneous
lot of cut flowers in wads for vases, but
to give each flower its natural, charac-
teristic attitude and isolation, and the
result is far more artistic and beautiful.
Garden Magazine.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1905-06-15
A CHARMING PLAY-GOWN.
Built on Simplest Lines and Construct
ed Of Durable Material Is This
Mothers Delight.

There is no more charming little
lady in the land than Miss Simplicity in
her play-a-day frock, anticipating no
end of fun and ready for anything which
may come to interest her active little
senses. The little play-gown must be.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1905-06-15
The Only Way.

IF you want a thing we'll done-~
began the Quotation Fiend.
"Tell the waiter you want 1t rare,
finished the restaurant rictim.-Gevs,
lard Leader.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1905-06-15
ATTRACTIVE HOMES
WHOLLY AGREEABLE ROOMS
NEED FEMININE TOUCH.

Individuality in the Arrangement of
Trides-A Woman's Peculiar Love
for Particular Chairs and Tables
Simplicity, Not Quantity of Fur
niture Should BE Desired-Let In
Plenty Of Light-Furniture Ac-
quires Personality of Its Own.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1905-06-15
She Knew.

Her Fathcr-What! Marry that fool.
Why, he hasn't any idea Of finance.
His Daughter-Don't you believe the
half Of it: He stopped right in the
middle of his proposal to ask how much
you were worth-Brooklyn EAGLE.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1905-06-15

Theatrical item from the Burlington
(kan.l Jeffersonian: "The gallery in the
opera house has been fastened to the wall
30 that it cannot possibly fall"
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1905-06-15
They Run Over a Peasant with an
Automobile and Climb "Glaziers"
in Switzerland-Dad Falls Over
Precipice, But Is Res
cued by the Guides.

eSSAF@SS1 AO0S 40 ave.
cued by the Guides.
By HON. GEORGE W. PECK.
Ex-Governor of Wisconsin. Formerly Pub
Usher OF Peck S Sun, Author of "Peck's
Bad Boy" Etc.)
Copyright. 1905, by Joseph B. Bowies.)
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND. = MY
DEAR OLD MAN: BY ginger, but l
would like to be home now. have
had enough of foreign travel; l don't
see what is the use of travelling, to see
people of foreign countries. when you
can go to any large city in America.
and find more people belonging to any
foreign country than you can find by
going to that country, and they know
a COMPOUNDED sight more. Take the
Russians in New York, the Norwegians
of Minnesota, the italians of Chicago,
and the Germans in Milwaukee, and
they can talk English, and you can find
out all about their own countries by
talking with them. but you go to their
countries and the natives don't know
that there is such language as the
United States language, and they laugh
At you when you ask questions. am
sick of the whole business. and would
give all ever expect to be worth, to
be home right now, with my skates
sharp.
would like to open the door Of your
old grocery, and take one long breath,
ard die right there on the doorstep,
rather than to live in luxury in any for
eign country. Do you know, sometimes
go into a grocery store abroad, and
smell around, in order to get my
thoughts on dear old America, but
nothing abroad smells as the same
thing does in our country. If I could
get one more smell Of that key of
sauerkraut back of your counter, when
it is ripe enough to pick, l think l
would break right down and cry for
jog. OF course l have smelled sauer-
kraut over here, but it all seems new
and tame compared to yours. 1t may
be the kraut here is not aged enough
to be good, but yours is aged enough
to vote and sticks to your clothes.
Gee, but just ache to get into your
grocery and eat things, and smell
smells, and then lay down on the
counter with the cat with my head on
pile of wrapping paper and go to
sleep, and wake up in America, an
American citizen, that no king or
queen can tell to "hush up and take
off my hat when want my hat on.
You may wonder how we got out of
Monte Carlo. when we had lost