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

deity-whO seems to be none other
than his satanic majesty-deyil-wor.
ship voodooism is often called. And
just recently two persons were exc
cuted in Hayti for voodoo cannibalism.
1t is reported that officials high in
position in Hayti close their eyes to
yoodoo practices, even repeated that
the president himself attends the, an.
nual voodoo festival. In that land now
in possession of the negro, where but
a century ago French civilization had
no small influence, there one finds a
reversion to barbarism. the blacks go.
ing back to the state Of their forefath.
ers in the African jungles. 1t seems
pretty near home for this sort of thing
to be going on unmolested.
OF course, the more civilized Of the
of affairs, either deny that voodooism
exists in Hayti. or else deny that it ex-
lists in any particular locality in which
the speaker dwells. An English trav-
eler holds q far different opinion Of
the matter. He writes:
I'm Hayti the nominal religion is
Roman Catholicism, but it is no more
than a thin veneer; beneath you find.
not traces merely. but solid ground
work Of West African superstition,
serpent worship and child sacrifice.
There are different degrees of VOC
dooism, but one acquainted with the
excitable negro temperament can east.
ly imagine the one stage leading readi-
ly to the fiercer, cannibalistic. Voo-
dooism. it would appear, involves the
placation Of evil spirits. One sect sac
riflces fruits, white BOOSTERS and goats;
the sect which tte law pursues, has
rites requiring the human sacrifice.
when the voodoo deity prefers the
blood of white person, has particular
desires for the palpitating heart of q
white child. This is too revolving to
dwell on, but it may be we'll to bring
to notice the benighted state of the
savages at our gates.
Whether or not the stories are exag-
gerated, the cases proven are that
many too many. The voodoo deeds are
deeds Of darkness, only at night are
IlcIl CclCulOuIeo luuulScu al. duu lucu
strict secrecy is observed. In country
places, more often in mountain fast
nesses, are the orgies carried on pro.
longed to the point of madness and
then exhaustion. Part of the property
of the priest is serpent sacred OBJ
ject; to work things up to the required
voodoo pitch. the serpent is sent into
commissions of rage by being poked
with stick. With knives in their
hands, the worshippers dance madly
about. stopping to drink warm goats
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1905-06-15
V0OD0O MYSTERIES
HAYrIANs RETURNING 10 THE
BLACK ARTS OF AFRICA
In Cuba Also the Voodoo Priest and
PTiestess Are Believed In
and Their Services in
ReuuiSition

Voodooism We associate with dark,
est Africa. with slave days in. Louis
lana. with the un-Americanized negro,
with the past. But to-day 1t still ex-
lists. to-day it's superstitions and the
worst of its rites form q cult followed
by large body of apparently mild,
more or less civilized darkies. Both
in Hayti and Cuba, from time to time,
there come to light cases of horrible
atrocities, almost unbelievable cere'
monies. Not SO very long ago down in
Cuba the law got hold of a band Of
negroes that had murdered q little
white child as sacrifice to the yoodou
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1905-06-15

". sae means Q: e-cxre." s..so...'' -
"F1rst will show you the cause: Sec
ond. the effect: third. the means Of
escape"
Note.-There are no words. firstly.
secondly. thirdly, etc.
Don't say 'first-rate" for very
we'll"
Example: "How do you like him.
"First-rate," should be How do you
like him." every we'll"
Note.-First-rate should be used only
as an adjective. never in the sense OF
an adverb. THAT is first-rate music
signifies that 1t rates high: yet the
word superior or some other adjective
Of like meaning would be better.
Don't say "fixed" for repaired"
Example: "Will you fix nv watch -
should be will you repair my watch? -
Note.-To fix is to make fast; hence
1t may be seen that the word is seldom
used correctly. One may fix post OF
fix bolt. or fix many things when re-
pairing: but to fix a watch or fix 8
coat or fix a cane is quite another
thing.
Don't say foot" for eject"
Example: ut was ten foot high
should be cit was ten feet high"
Example: "Not less than ten foo
of SNOW" should be Not less than ter
feet of snow"
Note.--The word foot. in this sense
should be used only as compound ad
jective: thus three-foot rule. a ten
foot pole.
|
Don't say follow after" for "foltow.
Example: "When he dares to follow
after me-" should be when he dare
to follow me-"
Don't say "forbear from"
Example: "He could not forbea
from weeping" should be "He coul,
not forbear weeping"
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1905-06-15
FINED TO THE PEASANT
CLASSES ONLY.
SLAYER OF SERGIVS WAS A PRINCE
His Unsuarded Statements Sent Many Others
of the Cars Household to Prison Cells
The Terrible Punishment Pre-
scribed by Nicholas.

st. Petersburg.-'It was the best of
times, it was the age of wisdom, it was
the age of foolishness, it was the
epoch of belief, it was the epoch of in
credulity, it was the season of light, it
was the season of darkness, it was the
spring of hope, it was the winter of
despair, we had everything before US.
we had nothing before us, we were all
going direct to Heaven, we were all go
ing direct the other way-in short the
period was SO far like the present peri
cd, that some of the noisest authorities
insisted upon it's being received, for
good Or for evil, in the superlative de-
gree of comparison only. There was
a king with large jaw and a queen
with a plain face on the throne of Eng
land; there was king with large
jaw and queen with fair face on
the throne of France. In both coun-
tries it was clearer than crystal to the
lords of the state preserves of loves
and fashions that things in general
were settled forever" 1t was with this
introduction that Charles Dickens pro-
SOCuON w ASSVoIs ALA SAO oAC vi i w
Cities" the vital details of the awful
drama of the French revolution, pic
turing that character whom none can
put out of memory who has once read
the story-Madame Defarge, the female
creature who sat knitting, always and
persistently knitting. knitting into a
fiendish record, descriptions of those
selected to die on the guillotine when
once the wheel of fortune should bring
the fevolutionists in power.
There is knitting of this kind in Rus
STA to-day. Nor is it the coarse. and
bungling work of the peasantry. If
Count Tolstoi has not been knitting,
certainly his finger of warning has
pointed in many directions. Ominous
records have been woven in the most
unsupported quarters Because the con-
demned are not marched in physical
line to the guillotine, shall it be said
their fate is the less methodically
content to protest, and Tolstoi is one
of these But also there are those who
count. and those who kill. The reign
of terror is not less at hand because
the Russian bomb displaces the French
guillotine: The insecurity is not less
general than in those tranquil" days
which ushered in the French revolution.
London punch" with keen irony,
published cartoon entitled France is
Tranquil" and the same peace now
reigns in Russia. Evil plots are
Matched within exclusive clubs. and
muffled behind rich draperies, but they
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1905-06-15
Smallest colored Ada1t.

Rock Island, ILL.,, claims The small
est colored adult in America in the
person of Minnie Dimery. Her height
is AZ inches and she weighs 40 pounds.
She is 43 years of age. Though we'll
formed and healthy, she is below the
average in intelligence, her mental de-
velopment being that of a child of six
years. Her parents and brothers and
sisters are normal In every respect,
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1905-06-15

awful example to any other conspira-
tors who may be partaking of the
cars bread.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1905-06-15

Don't say enclose" for enclose"
Example: Enclosed you will find
five dollars" should be Enclosed YOU
will find five dollars"
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1905-06-15

Don't say endorse for Endorse"
Example: Endorse the note"
should be Endorse the note"
Note.-Both endorse and indorse are
used by good writer's; but the ten
dency is to the more general use of in
dccse and its derivatives, indorsee, in
dorser and indorsement.-W Int.
The Minneapolis journal., 1905-11-26

Neu "andSon of

HISTORY OF THE PACIFIC SLOPE
AND ALASKA. Pacific Slope and
Alaska is the title Of the latest volume
of "The History of North America, y
that monumental work edited by Guy
Carleton Lee, Phi. D., of Johns Hopkins
university. It is the tenth volume of
the series and is the work of Joseph
Schafer, NIL, BIZ, head Of The de-.
pertinent of history Of the University
Of Oregon, already known as historian
for his i" History Of the Pacific North
west. - .--.r.r...-.~~- :, .-@-/
Professor Schafer has treated the de
velopment Of the Pacific coast of the
United States as a unit, something
which, we understand, has never. be-
fore been done. His work will, there
fore, be hailed with pleasure by stu
dents and readers of the history Of
that vast stretch Of territory, which,
thru the reawakening of the .rient is
coming to be Of such tremendous i'm
portance not only to the nation but to
civilization. Another cycle has begun.
| Civilization in the orient is taking on
new color. Life there is being re-
modelled. The Influences that are leading
tn these results are coming from all
sources, but nowhere will a people be
closer in touch with the orient than
by way of the Pacific. Influences will
go forth from America g western border
that will affect the new order that will
in trrn sweep westward from Japan
and China, and a reflex influence will
sweep back across the Pacific, colorine
our own civilization. The Pacific slope
therefore, has become the center Of new
enterprise and of vastly important
actil tiles. -. .',...
Tt IS, then, a matter of interesting
study that is offered by Professor
Schafer-the foundations from which
new forces will operate botl westward
and eastward. From the first the Pacific
slope has been cosmopolitan, but with
increasing relations with the far east
it will become more and more so. The
dominating characteristics of pest years
are likely to be blended into the new
in such way as to be almost lost sight
Of. Consequently Professor Schafer' 4
book is, most opportune, coming at toe
juncture of the old order with the new
to preserve the old for the study Of
the new. =. - .--. a..
There is the other interest thu
"slope' has for Americans, which il
met in the book in hand-that of til,
romance Of the old days, romance il
California, in Oregon, in Washington
and in Alaska. Not a section is with
The Minneapolis journal., 1905-11-26

audible rollcall had responded "Here!"
score of years before Thackeray's s old
soldier had become again child to
answer "Adsum!'' Not less than a
score of years later an old sailor in one
of the stories of Sir Walter Besant made
his final exit from this world with a
kindred phrase, "Come on board sir!" Z"
And then, once more, in one of Mr..
Kipling s g Plain Tales from the Hills, -
we find the last dying speech and con-
fession of certain Mcintosh who had
been scholar and gentleman in days
gone by, and who had sunk into ire
deemable degradation in India When
his hour came, he rose in bed and said,
as loudly as slowly, "Not guilty, my
Lord!' Then he fell back, and the
stupor held him till he died.
The December ''Harper's 1.-THE
reader who opens the Christmas number
of Harper's Magazine will doubtless ex.
claim over its beauty. The sumptuous
color work arrests the eye at once, and
later the attention is caught by the
wonderful list of writer's contributing
to this number: Maurice Maeterlinck
Grover Cleveland, Mark Twain, William
London, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Har
| riet Prescott Spoford, Edmund Gosse
| Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Henry Mills
Alden, Ernest Rhys, Henry w. Nevin
son, Professor Thomas R.. Lounsbury
The Minneapolis journal., 1905-11-26

out it. No fiction that has been written
Of any part Of the Pacific slope can
compare with the truth, and that Pro-
fessor Schafer has gathered from wioely
scattered sources and with infinite
pains, for he is a pioneer in the work
he has attempted. His history econ
Germs itself with three widely differing
sections populated by antagorlstic peo
Piles. For to California the Spanish first
came; English-speaking people settled
the Oregon country; subjects Of the
Muscovite came to, the land uorth Of
fty-four-forty.' - Not only have the
histories Of these various sections been
told separately, but their relations have
been shown, and their relations with
the east. Thus has been given com
pletely-sympathetically and lucidly,
too--the story Of an empire which as
years go on will hold more and more
important place in the affairs of the
world.
The book is richly illustrated and
illuminated with pictures, drawings and
charts.
George Barrie + Sons, Philadelphia.
The Minneapolis journal., 1905-11-26
THANKSGIVING.


When chickens and turkeys are basted and brown,
And the ills Of the season are wholly for
gotten, ss.g .--rE 2 5ys
When neat invitations have scattered the town
'Mongst the people in silk and the people in
cotton, g.. . -..z- 4 4
What time of all times in the whole circling
year lsE'.- ID
Approaches in mtrth this accustomed Thanks
giving? -..%
And when does the mercy Of God more appear
Than when we are net for day of thanks
living? '-.. =
There is pleasure for all; cen the has
charm: 7--2-E,.:sc 49,"
Thrice. welcome 1t comes to the sober, old
IT'S dull, chilly day, but the hearth-6re
g1ows warm
And want quite forgets all her former
= privation.
The prodigals come from the east and the west,
The brothers. the, sisters, the uncles and
~ cousins,
tumble into the quiet horne-nest
With greetings and and-shakes and kisses
by dozens.
There's good will toward all; e'en the cynic
is still:
But bark! IT'S the old-fashioned grace they're
repeating. E
IT'S over; how mirth, take the floor as you will,
The turkey is carved and we'll fall to the
eating. %
Twill call back such days from the years that
are gone,
Twill bring up the scenes we shall always
remember;
Twill give us pleasures to ponder upon
Thank God for this day in this dismal
November!
Floyd D. Raze.
The Minneapolis journal., 1905-11-26

NEW EDITION OF ARTHUR UP
SONS "THE CITY. "A new edition
Of The City, a Poem Drama, by Arthur
Upson, has been issued by the Mac
milan company. "The City, has un-
dergone a slight modification since it's
first publication. The change is toward
the close where Stilbe enters following
the. fight at the gate Of the kings
garden. The poem as revised brings
Stilbe clothed in white and gold, bear
ing garlands, and laughing, in upon the
shoulders of slaves, instead Of mortally
wounded as in the original Mr.. Upton
regards the change as an improvement
in that it is more logical and effective,
and in this his readers must agree with
him.
1t is in an addition to the "Octaves
in all Oxford Garden,' republished in
the. present volume, and in numerous
new sonnets, however, that readers will
find freshest interest in the book in
hand Octaves XVIII. to XXX, ''Fhe
One Flower,' contain happy poetic
conceit in an appropriate mold. In
",The Coal Breaker' is shown again
Mr.. Upton's power to take the huge
and ugly and make it fit subject for
true poetry. His readers will remember
"Wheat Elevators,'' beginning:.
Castles or Titan's houses or huge fanes
OF arcient gods that vet compel mems fear
What powers, what pomps, do these betoken
here
Looming aloft upon the plough-seamed plains?
AS companion to this is "The Coal
Breaker,' new sonnet which runs
thus:
This is the house where, up from ages gone,
| Huge forests root and leaf and bough and
bole,
| With every bend of breeze and tempest-roll
| Preserved in crystal from earths distant dawn,
Again to light laboriousy are drawn.
No continents tumultuous throes control .
| Their phalanx more; they are black seams
| of coal
| And are upheaved by human will and Drawn.
But see, here in this ogre's castle weaves
A. magic power to make those forests glad
I And charm away their thousand ages sleep,
| For more than all the beauty once they had
| Returns, with song Of bird and rush Of leaves,
| In the bright waving hearth fire calm and deep.
| Mr.. Upson's new work thruout shows
an increase of that conscientious and
painstaking finish and that depth of
feeling that have marked former efforts.
The finish Of his work does not Cypress
one; it is not labored, but gives the
impression of that ease and grace that
make poetry, when it holds "funda
mental brain work. a delight to thu
senses as we'll as to the mind and heart
Mr.. Upson' s friends, both personal and
literary, will be glad to get this new
edition of his most important work.
The Macmillan Company New York.
! $1.OO.
The Minneapolis journal., 1905-11-26
SKETCH OF THE DISCIPLES OF

CHRIsT.-In view of the approaching
centennial of the founding Of the Dis
ciples of Christ as church, the little
book, The Disciples Of Christ, by
Everett Gates, the latest addition to
The Story Of the Churches will be
received with special interest. The cen
tennial does not come until 1y0a, but
the church has shown remarkable
power, has a widespread membership,
and the occasion will doubtless be duly
celebrated. "The Story of the
Churches " is a series of brief, popular
histories Of the various denominations,
written for the average church mem
Der, but by the leading historians Of
each denomination.
The Baker & Taylor Co., New York.
$500. 93
The Minneapolis journal., 1905-11-26
BOOKS RECEIVED.

The Hand, a survey of facts, legends
and beliefs pertaining to manual cere-
monies, covenants and symbols, by Lewis
Dayton Burdick, author Of Magic and
Husbandry," etc.-The Irving Co., Oxford,
N. Y: $1.50. -
Mozart The man and the artist as re-
vealed in his own words. Carefully COM
piled and annotated by Frederick Kerst.
Translated into English and edited with
new introduction and additional notes by
Henry Edward Kreibiel.-B. w. Huebsch,
New York: 81 net.
Chronicle of Christmas. BY jeanette
Grace Watson. A book of Christmas
poems and prose- attractively bound and
decorated.-The Saalfeld Publishing COM
pany, Akron, Ohio: ST.
Sweeter Still Than This. A holiday
book of love poems fancifully decorated
within and without. By Adah Louise
Sutton. Illustrated by CARL B. Williams
and decorated by Ida May Rockwell
The saalheld Publishing company, Akron,
Ohio.
The Minneapolis journal., 1905-11-26

Mary R. s. Andrews, Josephine Preston
Peabody, and many others. The repro
ductions of Howard Pyle's four paint
ings, illustrating his own article on
ssThe Fate of a Treasure Town. are
remarkable color work.
Mark Twain has Htranslated from
the original'' for the Christmas num-
iber of Harper.'s, the diary OF Eve, as
It contains these notes among many
others:
Saturday. am almost a whole day
old, now. I arrived yesterday. That is
as it seems to me. And it must be so,
for if there was day-before- yesterday
was not there when it happened, or 1
should remember it. 1t could be, of
course, that it did happen, and that I
was not noticing
For feel like an experiment. I feel
exactly like an experiment, it would be
impossible for person to feel more like
an experiment than 1 do, and so l am
coming to feel convinced that that is
what I am-an experiment; just an ex-
pertinent, and nothing more.
I do love moons, they are so pretty and
so romantic I wish we had five or six;
would never go to bed; l should never
looking up at them.
Rare Portrait Of Iincoln.-A rare
portrait Of Lincoln will accompany
Frederick Trevor Hills "Lincoln the
lawyer in the December number of
The Century. The copy used was dis
covered recently in Lee, MASSACHUSETTS,.
Another print is in possession of a
photographer in Chicago, and copies
Of the latter were printed, in a private
| publication Of the Illinois Central Rail
road company, referring to Mr.. Lin
torney, and it was thought that the Chi
cago original was the only one in ex-
| istence. This picture represents Lin
| coin as he looked before entering the
! White House.
The Minneapolis journal., 1905-11-26
A WOMAN'S LOOKS,-l

A WOMAN'S LOOKS.-Frances A.
Mathews, the author Of 'sThe Staircase
of Surprise,' a novel Of the Chinese
Japanese war, is indebted to her name
for many peculiar experiences. Most
strangers think that she is a man on
account of the virile tone of her books,
and that her name is "Francis. - She
was sitting in car in New York one
day recently and heard herself de-
scribed as ''an intimate chum Of mine,' -
by very nice looking fellow. His
companion asked how "Francis -
looked.
~''Oh, very tall, splendidly made
chap, blond hair, great on the women,
strings Of girls in love with him.
:. "Any beard or mustache?''
Miss Mathews shook with suppressed
emotion.
"No, clean shaven. I'll present him
to you some day.
Miss Mathews subsequently confded
to D. Appleton & Co., her publishers,
that she refrained with difficulty from
handing him her card.
The Minneapolis journal., 1905-11-26
VExING PROBLEMS OF THE
SOUTH AS SEEN BY ANOTHER


SOUTH AS SEEN BY ANOTHER
must be given credit for view of some
of the south s problems from an angle
different from any yet taken by nov
elist. His plan, as disclosed in The
Colonel's Dream, is good. He takes a
confederate officer, Colonel French, who
went north following the war, and, be-
sides making fortune, absorbed good
deal Of the northern spirit, and sends
him back to his former home to become
interested in conditions Of the whites
and blacks there. What promised at
first to be a mere passing interest soon
developed into determination on the
colonel s part to devote himself and his
fortune to the regeneration Of the COM
munity, to secure Justice for the blacks,
and freedom for blacks and poor whites
alike from the greed Of the human
sharks who infest the south. Even
among old friends the colonel meets op-
position. He finds widespread dread
Of negro power as one of the possibili-
ties of negro enlightenment. He dreams
of effecting a change.
The fate of the colonel's dream is
for the author to tell. This he does,
weaving into the telling a double
romance. But both dream and romance
lack vitality, tho the dream is the
| better. presented of the two interests
of the story. The elements are good,
but the author has not given care
enough to their .recounting. However,
the picture is one worthy Of study. 1t
shows the difficulties in the way Of the
regeneration Of the south as few books
have-the spirit Of hostility against
placing in the hands Of the blacks that
knowledge which is power and which
the southern whites fear may be mis-
used.
Doubleday, Page & Co., New York.
$1.5O.
The Minneapolis journal., 1905-11-26
THE MAGAZINES

How Thackeray, Besant and Kipling
Are Indebted to Cooper.-Thackeray
was frequent in praise Of Fenimore
Cooper, hailing Leather-stocking as bet
ter than any Of "Scott's IS lot;' and his
appeared in the Roundabout
Papers, long after the British novelist
had paid to the American romancer the
sincere fattery Of borrowing from the
last words of Natty Bumppo the sug-
gestion, at least, of the last words Of
Colonel Newcome, says Brander
Matthews in the Christmas Scribner's
Cooper's -woodsman, hearing an in