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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1885-07-09
upwards of $3.50 600 600 upop all Of

upwards of $3.50, 900, 900, upon all of
which they are drawing interest,
The total interest which they draw
would, at an average rate Of ten per
cent simple interest, amount to $780,
600, 900 per year.
They have annually drawn thirty five
millions upon what they owe!
They live in reality as the worthless
vagabond affects to live when he, in
careless. rollicking mood tells you
that he living upon the interest of
what he owesi''
Their total circulation during the
twenty years of their existence has
amounted to $4,000, 000, 900, an average
of upwards of $50, 000,000 per annum.
In twenty years they have drawn
from the people in the shape Of interest
money upon what they owed the enor-
nous sum of 500, 100000.
Not only have they drawn this amount
upon what they owed, but they have
been. during all this time, drawing in
terest from the people, through the gov
eminent, upon upwards of $500, 900, 900
of bonds, amounting to not less than
1876, 900, 900 more.
From the people direct. and through
the government they have drawn as in
terest upon their untaxed bonds and as
interest upon what they owed. the sum
of not less than 81, 075, 900. 000i
In addition to this they have loaned
out on an average deposits (money
which business men have TEN porary de-
posted with thcm) to the amount of
S475, 200, 900 per annum, the interest
upon which has amounted to S47, $780,
600 year, or S950,000,000 in twenty
years.
From interest upon what they owed,
100000, 900!
From interest upon untaxed bonds,
1915, 900 900!
From interest upon other people S
money, $3.50, 900. 900.
A grand total of 50, OPS, 900, 900!
This is the tribute which the national
bank system has exorted from the pro-
ductive enterprises of this country in
twenty years.
The above are the reasons-possibly
not all, but at least enough-why ma
tional bank notes should be retired and
greenbacks issued in their place.
To do SO would enable the govern
ment to take up an equal amount of
government bonds, and thus reduce the
debt and cut off that much annual in
terest. La other words, it wCul reduce
taxation. Had the government issued
greenbacks instead OF national bank
notes, it would have saved, in round
numbers, not less than $500, 900, 900 OF
taxation during the last twenty years.
Why not have 500, 900, 900 of green
backs instead of mixture of 800, 0OO,.
900 of greenbacks and national bank
notes? 1t would be no infiation-that
bugbear which the people have been
made to fear! 1t would add not one
iotu more to Uncle Sans present labil-
tiles, for he stands behind the green
backs and national bank notes.
TO recapitulate, in brief, the green
backs are every way preferable as cur
rency TO bank notes; to substitute green
backs for bank notes would save
Sl5, 100000 to S20,000,000 in taxes; 1t
would be benefit to the people, and
unjustly injure no one-therefore. why
not have greenbacks instead of bank
notes?
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1885-07-09

The jury in the Mackin perjury case.
in Chicago, on Wednesday last, return
ed verdict of guilty, and the fine
working Democratic secretary was
sentenced 10 five years in the peniten-
tiary.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1885-07-09

The President has appointed Jas. b.
Hays, a prominent lawyer of Dodge
county, to be chief justice of the SUI
preme court of Idaho.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1885-07-09

The Milwaukee & St. Paul road has
purchased the Fargo Southern, and the
road will not be extended TO Flandrau,
as was contemplated.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1885-07-09

The steamship Wisconsin arrived at
Castle Garden on Wednesday last bring
ing 54l Mormon converts.
Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1885-02-21
They Couldn't Make Him Speak.

They had a dime supper in the neigh
borhood Of Pawtucket, conceived and
carried out by the ladies. The condi-
tons of this novel supper were these:
For every word spoken by the gentle
mon at the supper-table a forfeit of 10
cents was imposed; but. on the other
hand Gas duties are always compensat-
cd with rights and restrictions with
privilegcs), it was agreed that whoever
could weather the whole supper, SUBJ
hitting to all queries. surprises, and
ingenious questions without replying.
should be entitled to it gratuitously.
Many and frequent were the articles
and subterfuges resorted to by the la
dies in attendance to entrap the un-
guarded, and one after another stout
and discreet man went down before the
constant volley of Neutrality-suspicious.
At last all fell out and paid the dime
penalty save one Individuals queer
chap whom nobody seemed to know.
He attended strictly to business, and
passed UNDECIDED the jokes, gibes and
challenges. They quizzed him, but all
in vain. He wrestled with turkey and
grappled with the goose. He bailed
out the cranberry auc with an un-
swcrving hand, and he ate celery as the
scriplural vegetarian ate grasses; and,
finally. when he had finished his fifth
piece of pie, he whipped out a pocket
slate and wrote on it in a large and
legible hand, II am deaf and dumb"
-Pr0UiQence journal,
Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1885-02-21
After-Dinner Speakers.

The after-dinner orator whom l now
have in mind, is on his legs before the
company, digging his fork into the Ia
ble-cloth, his lips quivering, his eyes
wandering and blinking, and an OBJ
servant doctor would say that with a
little more strain upon him the poor
mar would 90 off in a fit. As to what
be did blunder out, the least that is said
the better. The poor fellow finishes
and falls into his chair, glazing wildly
he has made his a%fter-dinner speech.
Mr.. John Bright is conspicuousl,y one
of the very best public speakers in Eng
lana, and this is what he nee said
aboa' af,er-dinner speaking at a ban
quet IN London:
Il must confess that since dinnerter
minated I have been actuated by some
t.:.:y Ike i feeling Of envy. hav" en-
vel the sN"1ncr> who have gone bttcre
ne Ike f""c.,itt. tie Euency, with w..ch
IL V il,,:r rHr "J>o to pc 'formt:.c ,sk
a. 80. -. allotted t. ,.."m. | ,':-
l. II .he.A j. 10 ;,-li 50 severe (Which
q : '""~nr GA be rut g 10 maze a
~}r.. "A ii is not lbs, .u!r!v uA:nicT-
{, . an occasion l.3r.liS. Nov,
mag. .:ie great src:.cr si,e.:k> OF
.'<p->k-:S. How, then. about the
gre. bulk Of us. who are no. speakers
q. All? Ii Mr.. Bright can with difficulty
do it, what is to become OF you and l,
dear reader, who have not the gift Of
yab?-Houard Paul in san francisco
.NtWs Letter.
Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1885-02-21
The Rise or the metropolitan Cor
respondent"

I will not assert that the brick
found among the ruins of Ninevah,
covered with cuneiform characters,
we're tablets which had dropped from
the hats of "Assyrian Specialist neither
will I insist that St. Paul alluded to the
news-correspondents of Athens when
he spoke of those Greeks there who
''spent their time in nothing else but
either to tell or to hear some new
thing" In ancient Rome, however.
centuries before there were types OF
printing presses, t~elegraphs or ocear
steamers, there were metropolitan cor.
respondents. Wherever the victor
ious legions advanced, the Roman OH.
GERS, both military and civil, were sup.
piled with the lidibria ventes and the
acta populi by special correspondents,
who sent away from the imperial city,
inscribed on papyrus.' almost exactly
the same matters about which We tele-
graph. We read in some of these
chronicles which have escaped the raw
ages of time about the debates in the
Capitol, the receptions of the Execu.
We, the gladiatorial shows, the new
bile buildings erected, chats for
ers. and on-dits for scandal-mong-
Q. The profession Of metropolitan
Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1885-02-21
An Indians Appetite.

The improvidenc of the Indian is
proverbial. They toll not. if tn y can
help it, neither do they spin, unless it
is around the kitchen about meal time.
They take no thought of the morrow,
but will gorge their capacious stem
achs to t. e highest notch, utterly in
di!tere , of the coming day. To f asst
Il day and fast six is a pref y fair av-
erage, though ardly up to the Indian
wish.
Night before last the motor crew
tried to measure the appetite of a guile
less Hute of ten sage brush ummers,
and to his demand for something to
eat gave him their lunches. Hale,
Rice and Merrigan emptied their buck
cts and the young redman swallowed
all and drank three quarts of tea and
coffee mixed. He then took a jaunt
down to Battle Mountain, but appear
ed again last night to see if he would
not Strike another grub bonanza, but
the railroad boys did not respond and
gave up the contract for filling such q
capacious maw.-Austin (Nev.) Reu-
lie.
Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1885-02-21
An Autumn Musing.

as this seat occupicdP' she twit-
tered.
She had saffron hair and wore a Jer.
sey. She wore other articles too num-
erouS to mention, also. Her face had
a bilio-poctic expression.
Half of it is at YOU DISPOSAL said
the editor, as he felt a blush stealing
around behind his ears and a cold wave
coming up his back to meet it.
''Then guess III set down. And
she set without any guess work about it.
The sun was sinking in the west.
(Thc sun rarely sinks in the east.) The
we tern sky was 18k. gold with rose
leaf alloy. The earth appeared as IT
the heavenly hosts had melted all their
arps of gold and poured the liquid on
wood, meadow and stubblc-field.
How beautiful is nature!' exclaim d
the ditor, wondering how much of her
was artificial. How beautiful is the
setting sun! Sc how the cart is made
an pen gold min , and the houses.
mean and grand, given cathedral win
dows!"
Her lips parted, but no words came
forth; however, she nested closer to
him and punched him in tn ribs.
"Ah," thought the editor, "here is a
rare soul that appr ciates all the beau
ties about US and low 8 nature rs the
dame deserves"
The train had just reached an apple
orchard. The trees were loaded with
fr it, red and gold. More than this,
the ditor was hungry. 10 my SOUL
exclaimed the hungry scribe, feeling
that the expression was charmingly
ambiguous just then, drink in the
beauties nature spreads over hill and
vale with such lavish hands! See, fair
maiden, those apples, hanging like
spheres of gold, dyed with stolen sun
set bushes; what more beautiful sight
can man see when he is not gazing
upon thee? No wonder it is a popular
fancy that the forbid!c len fruit WAS IN
apple. Who could resist It. Tell Ire,
sweet one. dos. thou not love the APP
pie and prize it above all o:her fruits
''Y-a-a-s, but they'll make yon
mighty sick ii you ca: en- when they ro
green
The editor subsided.-South and "
Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1885-02-21
A Boys Ambitions.

Nearly everybody who is now q man,
says the Through Mat, was once a boy.
All these grown-up boys remember how
they felt the first time they saw a brass
band, They felt that the president of
the United States was not to be COM
pared to the editor of the bass drum,
and that the drum-maior was at least
SIX inches above George Washington in
the temple of fame. Oh! how they did
yearn to belong to 2 brass band, until a
circus came along, and then they long
ed to be the fearless equestrian or the
man in the lions cage. Congress had
no charms for most of its present men,
bers when they were boys. To be a
bareback rider or drum-major was in
initely better than to be a member of
congress in their youthful eyes.
Then came a time when their hearts
were set on becoming a brakeman on a
railway train, and when the vision of a
promotion to the conductorship of q
train doated across their dreamy optics
they were in the fifth heaven of delight.
Time wore on, only to rub tn glitter of
the railway service of, and supply its
place with grand aspirations for the po-
sition of umpire of a baseball game,
which was rapidly succeeded by al in
ordinate ambition to be the victor of a
prize-ring. After being knocked out in
one round by nearly every boy in tho
community ambition again underwent
a metamorphosis, and the one thing of
all things desired was to be the reigning
monarch of a barber-shop, or t 9 un.
trammcled commander of a volunteer
fire brigade.
In d G time all the tinsel of these
high ca!iir:.s was but dross to the N.
and to die on he battlefield. rcathing
some patriotic scnti rent as the sands
OF life ran away. was the one his aim
OF existence. After one cncampmpnt
with the home militia, with beans and
ha""-tack for MENU, and a Fl ger acct
d"utallv shot of for fun, no further
anxiety to spill blood by the gallon for
tn II c nntrv was manifested, and they
longcd for more agreeable pursuits in
cident to the tranquil surroundings of
peace.
At about this point their desires took
a different turn. Their hearts glowed
With a nobler impulse, and there was a
tritl more determination to do in their
comp sition. One determined to teach
school, and did so. I be sure he was
surprised that life was not one continu-
al round of uninterrupted joy in his
new calling, but he worries along and
the n xt spring enters a law office and
becomes a disciple of Blackstone. The
next autumn he reverts to school-teach-
ing, and school-teaching is sandwichcd
into his life in various ways and at nu-
ME GUS periods afterwards, until he be-
comes an editor, and the prize-ring cx-
periences of his youth are repeated
again. Some years later he is elected
to coagre s, and then all the old ambi-
tons are forgotten, and give place to
designs on the senate. Only a few of
them ever get there, and they at once
feel the humming of the presidential
bee in their bonnets, and eventually be-
come candidates before the national
conventions of the great parties, and
all but two gct-left; aid when the
election is v e one of these two is also
left.
Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1885-02-21
SpOuting Oil-Wclls in Russia,

The principal oil-wclls of the Baku
district lie at BalaXame Or Balakhani,
about six miles to the northeast of the
town: this is an oil-ticld about three
and a half miles in length by one and
a half in breadth. To the south lies a
smaller field called Bebeabat. One
fountain at Balakhani, ninety-eight feet
in depth, is noted as having been flow.
ing steadily for upward Of two years.
and still continuing to yield 500 barrels
n day. Another well not far off, 400
feet deep, commenced its career by
throwing up jet thirty feet in the air,
and then flooding the land with oil for
a considerable distance all around,
OVERLOOKING other wells and several
small refineries, so as etfcctually to stop
their work. The roar of the rushing
ell and gas could be heard a mile from
the spot.
Various flowing wells are said to
yield 5000 barrels a day, and some far
more; but, from the fact that these
quantities are generally stated in the
Russian measure of pools, it is not very
Easy to realize what is meant. One
pood. we learn, is equal to t~hirty-six
pounds English. Hence one thousand
:mods represent somewhere about six.
IN tonS. Accounts have just reached
.iand of an oil-iountain which was
* last December. and flows at the
OF from fifty to sixty thousand
daily. gushing forth with snch
:, us 10 break in pieces a three-inch
.-lron plate whicn had beeu fastened
er the well in order to divert The flo"
Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1885-02-21
How to Split a Sheet Of Paper.

1t is one Of the most remarkable O
critics of that wonderful product, paper,
that it can be split into two or even
three parts, however thin the sheet.
We have seen a sheet of the Illustrated
News thus divided into three parts, or
three thin leaves. One consisted of the
surface on which the e%ngravings are
printed; another was the side contain.
ing the letter-press, and a perfectly
blank piece on each side was the paper
that lay between. Many people who
have not seen this done might think it
impossible; Yet it is not only possible
but extremely easy, as we shalt show.
Get a piece of plate-glass, and place on
it a sheet Of paper: then let the latter
be thoroughly soaked. With care and
q little ieXteri;y the sheet can be split
by the top surface being removed. But
the best plan is to paste a piece of
cin;h or strong paper to each side of
t"r sheet 20 he split. When dry. vio-
!""t!,r ""d ".i'ou> hesitation PULL tho
w pc = G"tAlrr. who? part Of the
>!.r"' w.. T. 'nuui TO have adhered to
G "anN r,.rt 10 the o:rr,'. Soften tho
r. IL "A:'c I'D the pieces can be
"'-." .":i ed from me cln'h. The
:'F'' IS '.'er. i..v Demonstrated g, Il
L.: erect sa"jos.,v. vrt It can BE- ut.,i-
:z'i N >a..."U> Ways. Ii We want TO
r">'" III Il >rEip-topk Il newspaper a-li-
Gle printed on both sides Of the paper,
and possess only Il copy, it is very
convenient to know how to dctach the
one side from the other. The paper
When spit, as 1lav be imagined, is nor
transparent than when it was before
being subjected to the operation, and
the printins-ink is somewhat duller;
otherwise the two pieces present the
appearance of the original if again
brought together. Some time ago the
information of how to do this splitting
was advertised to be sold for a consid-
cradle sum. Wc'now impart it to all
Il readers gratuitously-BritisA and
COtONtQ[ Printer and SfUfiODpr
Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1885-02-21
Mr.. CARROTS Wealth.

MI. Garrett himself has said more
than one during the past few months
to gentlemen intimately concerned
with business affairs in which he was
prominent that he had so provided and
arranged in his will that there would
be no such change in the existing status
OF his holdings of various securities as
would at all disturb other interests. OF
greatest Importance, of course, is the
took OF the Baltimore and Ohio, Of
which he was not only the largest indi-
vidual shareholder, but even q holder
to a greater extent than the city of
Baltimore or the Johns Hopkins estate.
The "Garrett interest,"" in fact,
amounts, it is stated, to very nearly
two-sevenths of the entire capital Of
the company. The aggregate capital
stock is S14.792 ,266, or 147, 925. 66
shares, of the par value of 800. 1t is
estimated that the Garrett interest
amounts to about 10000 shares. The
market quotation of the stock is 175-
or Is per cent above par.
Estimates of the wealth of Mr.. Gar
rett, made by persons who have had
close business relations with him, vary
greatly and range all the way from
$4,000, 900 to $50, 900, 900. Besides the
common stock of the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad Company. he owned, it
is said, considerable amounts of the
preferred stocks and bonds of the rail-
road, and had invested largely in the
securities Of the branch and connecting
roads of the system. Among these
have been most prominently mentioned
the Pi:tsburg and Conne,!Sville. the
Cincinnati, Washington and Baltimore.
the Central Ohio ard the Washington
branch. he is said to have been a hold
or. TOO. Of socks or bonds in various
Eastern, Western ard Southern rail
ways. of government bonds. OF Mary
land and Virginia state securities. OF
Baltimore city stock. ana Of sock in a
number OF hacks and o:hrr iinaari"!
and commercial CORPORATIONS i? TIE
Garrett & Sons has 4 larrc AVID very
valuable business and Mr.. Garrc,; was
also a special partner in the firm of
Pope 4 Cole. extensive copper and
general metal dealers.
His investments in real estate We're
very large and widely distributed. Be
sides his residence he owned other
property on Mount Vernon place.
"Montcbello,' his country place, is
%splendidly improved, embracing over
~ thousand acres of fine land. and is
stocked abundantly with the best and
most valuable cattle, sheep and swine.
In his farming and stock raising opera
tons. MIR. Garrett took great personal
interest. and also in his gardens, hot
houses, and c~onservatorics. His horses
were not the fastest, but they were all
of fine stock, and from his pairs, driv-
en- to a broad. strong, but rather light,
double buggy, he got very good speed
always. Besides Montebcllo, he own
several fine places in Baltimore Coun-
ty. In the city his real estate en-
braced factories, warehouses, Office
buildings, and dwelling houses. Some
Of the best warehouse property in the
city belonged to him, and he had add
ell largely to the number of his office
buildings in the past fifteen years, par
ticularly in the neighborhood of South
and German strcets-Baltimore Amer-
icun.
Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1885-02-21
Genius and Opportunity.

For a score Of years the scientific
school of criticism has tried to break
down the barrier between ordinary
minds and men OF genius by proving
that genius differs in degree but not in
kind from common intellects. That
this tendency should have grown in
favor with critics is not surprising; it is
merely an illustration of that larger
tendency in modern science to regard
all organic beings as related, and to OBJ
literate the line of separation between
the lowest men and the highest ami
mails. But after accepting the asser-
ton that men of genius are only ordi-
nary men with some intellectual quail
ties developed to an unusual degree.
how does that make genius any the less
remarkable? 1t is in the difference
that the marvel lies. and not in the re-
semblance. Science will be able
to do more than record that difference;
it will never be able to explain it. So
when we are told that Shakespeare or
Goethe was the product of his time, we
need not quarrel with the statement;
but we know that no explanation of the
fact that Shakespeare was Shakespeare
can be given. That particular individ.
uality which distinguished him from all
other men, whether they were contem-
porary or not, cannot be explained by
referring to the age or to the environ
ment in which he lived-PhHadelphid
Bulletin.
Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1885-02-21
correspondents" thus established has

correspondents" thus established has
ever since been followed at the capital:
OF civilized countries; and now that
they have telegraph and the printing
press for the diffusion of their gather.
lngs and %gleanings, they are a recog-
nlzed institution. The brains of the
nifty or more here are the cameras
through which the nations history is
daily daguerrotyped on the minds Of at
least 5000. 600 readers. jefferson, who
was the first President inaugurated
here, had as his favorite correspondent
William Duane, of the Philadelphis
aurora, who had the of the White
House and was sneeringly called by
the Federalists the Presidential bag
piper.-Ben: Perley Poore.
Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1885-02-21
SUM MONS.

TERRIToRY or DAKOTA, District Court,
Fred J. Coykendall
".
Emma II. Coykendnll)
The Territory VI Dakota to the above named defend.
ant:
You are hereby ummone and required to answer
the complaint In the above entitlsh action. which ~A-
filed with the Gle k VI said court januni l'ih. lH'5. in
Grand Forks. u. 7 and Ia ser,e q copy 0fv"nr answer
to the said COM laint IN til" -ul-criLer. ut his Office IN
Devils Lake, In the G. uniy Of knuss, and Territory
Afor said, within thirty days after tho scr,ic" = this
suinnr.u- u!"n y,u. - rlu-i.e'f the day II -lich ..r.
vice; and If you TAIL To- nhs" "r tn: said complaint with
in til. I me aforesaid, lnc Iluiut!ii in this hltl"n viii
llaiht
Dated January /! A. b 1875,
JAMES r. BRlES,
$3.50 Plaintiffs Attorn. y. Devils L.k- D.T