Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1886-01-30
in them. 1have never beeS able to de.

TeStOfer, nut we 0tO no sleep! About
thirty of US we're put in n room in
Down stsirs they had a RED hot
stove and old boots, felt socks and reek-
ing fur coats were waited through the
cracks of the floor in currents of per-
fume. Like Coleridge in Cologne,
II counted twon and twenty scents
And seventy stencils, well Defined"
Somewhere along the route we en-
countered what made me homesick. 1t
was the "creeper'-not the Virginia
creeper either! Oh, the miseryl Oh,
the long vig,ls I spent in ambush for the
capture of these tender caressing crea-
lures. They were prolific too. l have
gone to bed with q certainty that I had
secured all but one and awakened in the
morning to find "a nation born in the
night" Audit was a touching maternal
lesson to see the ancestress of them all
sitting like a specialized grandame in-
struc,ing a circle Of young ones in the
heel Of your sock, as to the art of carv-
ing away the daintier morsels of 70 ur
anatomy.
Big heas had little deas
And these hal IDEAS to bite EN-,
And these IDEAS had other fear.
And 30 on. ad infnaum
l trust with you, nay fellow pioneers,
as with me, that they have departed "to
that bourne from whence no traveller
returns" Where they came from
is wrapped in an lmpenetrable mystery,
like the origin of other gypsies. There
used to be an fellow down in my country
who was poor, but too proud to accept
charity. We persuaded him to deliver
pay lectures so that he might think
he had something in return. His first
lecture was On the fGlory Of God as dis
played iuthe' Animated Creation" His
first illustration was the queen bee.
Consider" said he, ".he queen bee, che
knows not whence she came, nor whittier
she wingeth her flight, nor-n"r-nor-
(pauslng and s%tamn,ering) careth she a
damnI" So We dismiss the creeper. We
don't want any more lectures or expert.
ence connected with 1.-The animated
creation"
Well VIZ reached Devils Lake, the old
town, and there as you here tonight, We
met an accomplished pioneer in Major
Beuham. May his shadow never grow
less But he must not sit up "any more
Of nights" with a ,womans' suffrage
woman! 1 cannot delay long in giving
any delailed account of that wonderful
metropolis, and tho time has not yet ar
rived, III l said before, for personal his.
tory. The one uutenanted house that
stands there today, the sole emnan OF
its former glory, if its mute, dumb walls
could speak, would tell Of many Il diabol.
icL conspiracy Matched there to down
the fortunes Of this now prosperous town;
cunning and we'll devised schemes to
hoodwink Jim Hill and fool the "bis
heads" Of the NJ .nitoba road. do noi
revive these memories to stir up painful
"reminiscences; I am Il litue sore myself
OIL that score; but there was something
sublime in our lofty hopes, so soon to
tall i'll ruin around Us.
The merry Manitoba blizzard
'Toba blizzard. 'Tobs blizzard,
That pierced It's to the gizzard,
To the gizzard, to the Xizzard
might whistle around us as we gathered
around the fire in "the Mission'-then
Judge BENEFITS Office and now Weights
tailor shop. What cared We, co nfiden,
that ere long We would be living in com
Portable mansions on corner lots in
1.-THE great city by the salty inland sea p
That's what they said. What cared We
If the boys from Creelsburg passed US
with plying eye? Didn't we have Gov,
Ordway, Bishop Ireland, HARDWOOD, Jim
Hill and other mighty influences be
hind Ills? We've got the county com
missioners and the county seat and
didn't Donan say it was all right" Their
who "could be against us7" How vivid
ly l recall n occasion coming into
town; had not heard of any recent arriv
ais. As l turned the corner Of the Ben
ham house, then the Hotel de Benham
I saw the celebrated oracle, Col. DOMAIN
closeted behind a wood pile 1.-THE Their
mometer vas 3O' below with Deacon
Powell. Major Benham was watching
them from behind the corner Of McKe.
e. Perkins store. The looks Of the PEG
pie puzzled me. Presently l was asked
TO join the conference.
"Brooke. old boy. your fortunes made
It's all right. Hush Keep quiet. Dom
look pleased, put on long face; tel
everybody the jig is up. That you are
going to leave. This thing must be KEEP
quiet. Look at Bennett. Beuham ant
S!mraiL Look like Them"
Dazed aud stupeied in fact, and think
ing Of my fortune, 1 asked "Why, in tn
name Of Beelzebub, what is the matter
WELL" said the colonel, II came VI
last night with Jim Hill' "a tender &C
cent Of affection and confidence i,
"Jim.") He has stopped at Dana's. Thi
morning he is going up to Creelsburg
re will pass along the lake shore. H
does this to avoid giving the thing away