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Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1886-01-02
CHAPTER II.
INTRODUCES THE READER TO 'TnE LIVING

II READER TO TIE LIVING
MAGE OF 0 III NEEDHAM.
SO. also, ! hui nearly written, was Joseph
Norbury, Of Bralnlling house, Wycdaie,
Derbyshire. The mistake would be mar
donate, from the point Of view I had in
my mini. Joseph Norbury was a wilower
without children, and at the moment lie
possibly felt more alone than even John
Neelhalm, Tor he hal Lowell his wife with u
good mans. devotion. john Nee.Jham he'd
un only brother; Joseph Norhury had an
only sister.
Knowing neither John Needlam, nor
having any association nur connection with
him, not having even seen him, Joseph Nor
bury was the very image Of him, even to tho
possession of his hesitating manner aud his
touch of dandyism. Tall, pale, brown hair,
dark-blue eyes. a shaven face, not a great
talker, but eloquent when reused, joseph
Norbury was physically another john Need
ham, morally lie was his antithesis. II he
could have given Ncedham half Of hls
goodness, and taken again himself half Of
Neeaham's hard nature, they might have
become two excellent fellows instead Ct one
excellent fellow; for Norbury hal, fSura-
:ively speaking. heart enough for a whole
Parish. He was ia the first months Of a
bitter grief. HIS had been a love match,
and the loss of his young wife was an af-
diction lie rather nursed than trlel to
evade, either by the artifcs Of travel or liz
crease o. occupation. But on that May day
when MI. Needham returned to Lolion ,
newly elected member Of parliament an.
an otttceholder under tn, governn ent, Mr..
Joseph Norlnry had promised to consider
the serious advice of his doctor that Id
should take a sea voyage.
since the death Of his wife, Joseph Nor.
eury's only sister, Kaoe, had talk, n up her
permanent ahole III his mouse. h was 81,
she a dozen years his junior. They Lad
been orphaned at al early age, but with
sufficient mean, t. had a lie OF iulep,nl.
encs. They had only been separated wh, y,
Joseph married, ani thcn Kate had thou ,h,
1t best she should 1--we with h,r aunt al
Manchester, leaving Mr.. aud Ms. Norbu-y
10 possess together the DER old randi .nq
house on the Derbyshire We, near Mac
lock. They wore only separated, alas .ol
i've years; buS now that tley had come tx,
gether again the shadows o. the tul. While
broken column in the little churchyard foil
righ1 ccross their two l.vas. Joseph's
tfoutle had evea postI oaed indefinitely, il
was I ared, tue long LOPEZ for happ ness O.
Dick Woo1vLle, who had b,en eagagel K
kata for more than a year. a., was l
Aanches e. merchant, a Lr4ght, cneo- u.
prosperous young fellow, and he hal WI
has way 10 tae affection OF both bro. her al
sisJer.
just about tho time that Mr.. Nalham
N. r, was entering his town mouse on tina
lst OF May previously ms ltion ID, Jo,,p.
Norbury, his sister Kate and Mr.. R.cha.l
Woodvl.e were engaged in peasant after
dinner chat at B.ambling house, tine oil.
! famlv residsnos Of ths Norburvs. 1t va
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1886-09-15
TILE CHICAGO,
MILWAUKEE,
& ST. PAUL.


Is the Fast Mail Short Line fron.
st. Paul and Minneapolis, VIA 1Asps
Crosse and Milwaukee, to Chicago and
all points In the Eastern States and
Canada. It is the only line under one
management between ST. Pau. and
Chicago, and is the finest equipped
railway In the Northwest. 1t is the
only line running Sleeping Cars with.
luxurious Smoking Rooms, and the
finest Dining Cars in the World, via,
the famous "River Bank Route"
along the shores OF Lake Pep5n an0.
the beautiful Mississippi River to Nil
waukee and Chicago. It's trains con-
meet with those of the Northern lines
in the Grand Union Depot Ia Ct Paul
No change OF cars ofany class bstweens
St. Paul and Chicago For through
tickets, timetables and fzsil msEor-
nation apply to any common ticket.
agent in the Northwest f. Milfsry.
Gen. Manager; J. F. Tucker, ASA
Gen. Manager; A. V. H.. Carpenter
Gen. Pass Agent; Geo. H.. Heafford,
Asst Gen. Pass. Agent, Milwaukee
Wis. W. H. Dixon, Assistant Gen,
Pass. Agent, St. Paul, Mimi
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1886-09-15
Modern Jerusalem.

Letter from the Rev. Ira Harris:
The alleys, for you cannot call them
streets, especially in the Jewish quar-
ter, are fifty, dirty, paved with mud
and slime. Dogs are met on every
hand, poor, miserable ours, ever
ready to seize on anything in the
shape OF food, from a cast-off shoe to
a stray bone. In the shops that line
the marrow streets their keepers sit
cross-legged with an assortment ofsou-
venirs for travellers; pearls from the
Red Sea, cut and polished at Bethle-
hem, shells from Acre, resurrection
plant from Jericho, inlaid sandals,
carved olive wood trinkets, seals of
onyx, carnelian, jasper, or agate, with
the Church of the Resurrection, the
Mosque OF Omar, the five crosses Of the
Franciscans, the olive branch, star of
Bethlehem, cut or painted in Hebrew,
with Jerusalem "Mizpan" upon them,
beautiful silver flagree from Damas-
Gus, olive or castilesoap favored with
''spice of Arabi," paraffine candles,
painted and ornamented in many COL
ors, to be used in collecting and main.
tanning some of the "holy Greek fire.
thatewill spring off the "holy sepul-
chre'' the day before Easter.
The Mohammedans celebrate the
feast Of the ascension of the proph-
ct, and annually many sons of Is
lam come here; many are still here to
.'look on with silent contempt the 60
ings-on of the Christians 1t is esti-
mated that there are Is, 900 strangers
in the city-some for pleasure, but the
greater number Christian pilgrims to
participate in the Easter festival.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1886-09-15
WHAT DOES 1T MATTER,
Utica Herald.

Utica Herald.
Wealth and glory, and place and power,
What are they worth to me or YOU?
For the lease OF life runs out in an hour,
And death stands ready to claim his due;
Sounding honors or heaps OF gold,
What are they all when all is told?
A pain or a pleasure, a smile or a tear
What does it matter which we claim?
For we step from the cradle int the bier.
And careless world goes on the same.
Hours OF gladness or hours OF sorrow.
What does it matter to us tomorrow?
Truth Of love or vow of friend
Tender caresses or cruel sneers-
What do they matter to us in the end?
For the brief day dies and the long night
nears.
Passionate kisses, or tears OF gall,
The grave will open and cover them ali.
Homeless vagrant, or honored guest,
Poor and humble or rich and great
All are racked with the worlds unrest,
All must meet with the common fate,
Lie from childhood till we are old,
What is all when all is told?
Ella Wheeler Wilcox.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1886-09-15
Confide in Your Wife.

Were men to confide more in their
wives, they would be better. Women
have a finer and more exact sense OF
honor than men; their ideas of right
and wrong are not perverted by mo-
tives OF expediency, and sordid calcu-
lations are less apt to influence their
judgment.
Whenever thief or an embezzler is
brought to justice we generally read
that the mans wife is FRUSTRATED by
the knowledge of her husbands crime.
This conclusively shows that she was
in ignorance of his ng-doing, and
no one is more astounded by the eli
max than the woman whose name
has been dishonered. And it is on her
the great blow falls; the pity of the
world, pity is extended to her, is
tempered by scorn, and, be she ever
SO innocent, she never escapes a GER
tain amount of condemnation.
Would Gray be now q corpse, or Emo
a fugitive, or Ward a convict if they
had confided in their wives? We be-
AAoSo AAOC' Ae'O 0Aoy SOAC W u1S WIG
and said: II have taken money from
my corporation to speculate with, but
will repay it when the market turns"
we think his wife would have said:
"Put it back; make no restitu-
ton; tell the directors, and we will
be just as happy without our carriage
or our summer cottage" A woman
instinctively shrinks from the thought
OF wrong-doing. The man, a selt-de-
luded fool, easily pursuades himself
that the money is only g. loan; he has
q sure thing, and no harm can be
done by his borrowing" what he
needs No such Jesuitical sophistry
beguiles the wife, She knows it Is q
theft, and can not be made to see it
in any other light.
Now and then we hear of a man fall
ing because of the extravaganza of his
wife and daughter. Now and then we
bear of man who can say in the
words of Owen Meredith:
When they asked me about it told them
plain,
Love it was that had turned my brain.
How should heed where my hand had been
When my heart was dreaming OF Celestine?
True, now and then q man steals
for his Celestine; but how often! Wom-
| en- is society's balance wheel, and
the man who does not confde in his
wife leads life which can not admit
OF the light ofday being turned on it,
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1886-09-15

'tHow you do go on at your father,
child. Why, / never asked for things
in such way in my life"
"And you never got 'em, either; but
l will, and you know I'm in the right,
too, for pa can afford to fix up the
place some, and all he needs is good
stirring up to do it. You'll see what
a, difference three months will make
here!"
"Well, you mustn't be saucy, Millie,
anyway or tease tor things that's
extravagant.'
'sDon't you fear, ma Lee; but things
have got to be moving towards i'm
provement if I'm to have hand in
the work. I'm willing to work, but l
want to have some reward for it"
That night Mr.. Lee and his wife had
a long consultation. The subject was
the oft-debated one whether children
shall obey the parents, or parents
obey the children.
"It looks as if that was the latest
version" grumbled Mr.. Lee. "Things
hev changed"
Well, pa, you must admit that Mile
has got pretty good taste an judg-
| ment about things. Pm surprised;
myself, every day, to seehow neat an
handy she is around the house, but OF
| course you can't afford to make the
improvements she wants, tell her SO,
an let that end it,
"But she won't let it end it; that's
jest the trouble, Lucindy! she's so
headstrong tibet you might as we'll
talk to the wind; it's jest as satisfy
in"
"She don't tease for much fnery to
wear, ye know"
s'No that's so-jes now, but want
her to hev it jes' as nice as other girls
do; she's g. wonderful likely-lookin'
girl, Mile is, an she shan't lack for
clothes to set her looks of, now I tell
we, ma! But she's got sech a way with
her, tibet don't know how to manage
her; I'm free to confess l don't; an !
shall jes' hev to give in, or she'll make
me feel like perfect heather. Thet
cut me, Lucindy, bout you're bein'
too good woman to be worked to
death; it did, re'ly!"
| True to Miles prophecy, three
months did make such q change in the
farmhouse and it's surroundings, as
to call forth unstinted praise from all
beholders.
One day, in midsummer, produce
buyer called, on one Of his periodical
trips.
II declare, Mr.. Lee, I hardly knew
the place! Why, thought at first ]
must be on the wrong road"
"Well, yes" said Mr.. Lee, trying
not to feel proud; "we've been fxin'
up a leetle, jes' ter please Millie-that' e
our girl, we know! she took a notion"
"It's added cool one thousand to
the worth of the place, and l don't
suppose you spent quarter Of it,"
'No, we didn't; but that's just what
Millie said-the farm has come up ii,
value. "You see, she's the only one
we KEEP out Of four, an she's got sech
a way with her that we kindly indulge
her; but she's level-headed for ALL"
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1886-09-15
Feeling Walters.

The system of feeling walters is be-
coming as general and, we may say
pernicious, in this country as it is in
Europe. One of the proprietors Of the
Hoffman house in New York, talking
upon the subject the other day, said:
The young man that can't average
81 or SO a day in tips is not consider
ed good. Mind you, we are opposed
to tips here, but it is impossible to
stop it. 1t is a foolish habit. Ihave
fine-looking young men every day who
offer to work for nothing, and many
offer to pay for the privilege. The 9TH
er night a party from Texas sat here
for several hours. At the next table
sat well-known theatrical manager
who is noted for his liberality Every
time he ordered a drink he gave the
waiter quarter. The Texans MOTTO
ed this and, not proposing to be
ontdone, gave their boy fifty cents
and 81. He must have made during
the night at least $50 or $40. It's
got now, l am sorry to say, SO that
no one thinks of sitting down to take
a drink without giving the boy ten
cents. There are fifteen boys here,
and in the busy season you can inn
agine what these tips amount to.
Why, there are no young men in the
town, save the sons of rich parents,
who dress better or live higher than
ours do. One of them, who is mar
ried, lives in fiat that he certainly
pays 81, 200 a year for. At present
he has his wife and child at Babylon
for the summer.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1886-09-15
The Newspaper Boston.

It is we'll known that Western and
Southern newspapers have standing
headlines about Boston, and it may
be further said that if, on given day,
100 leading journals were examined,
the illusions to this favored city
would make q tolerably large collec-
ton. There is sort of alphabetical
procession of these references. To-day
it is the Arctic temperature, to.mor-
row the supposed bean diet. A third
day culture figures. Dowdiness, envy,
foibles, greed, hallucinations and so on,
through the prostrating list runs this
system OF detraction. Men who never
saw a slice of Boston brown bread and
never heard a Greek quotation on
Beacon street dare thus tospeak with
levity of a city which is no joke, as the
tax list shows.
Let it be said, once for all, that any
one, with or without a license, who
has new philosophy to preach, or
who wishes to convince us Of the vast
nsss of the West, or the "honah, SIR
OF the South, or who wishes to do any
one OF a thousand cranky things, will
be welcome to Boston. But let not
this invitation be held to include be-
lief that brown bread is here con-
sumed by the acre; that lexicon. is
given with one fsh-ball; that the bill
OF fare for 25-cent dinner is adorned
with quotations from the classics;
that the city is full of signs, ''This
way to the Concord School of Philos-
ophy;" that the heads are all level,
the tongues all eloquent, the pens ali
fountains of wit and wisdom.
Like her own precious east wind,
the real Boston is reasonably steady,
never dry, somewhat cooling, with a
bump or language. But that is not
the newspaper Boston Boston Ad-
vertiser.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1886-09-15
A Sham Play House.

On reaching Lucerne, writes Henry
Watterson in the Louisville Courier,
we were attracted by flaming posters
which made it known that M. Labit-
skis company of celebrated and unri-
vailed artists from Les Folies p arisien.
mes had begun summer season OF
comic opera at the Koursaal. ! asked
the concierge OF the Scheizerof what
sort OF performance they gave. every
good" he said. repeated this ques-
tion to loquacious hair-dresser who
was graciously bestowing upon my un-
worthy head his professional attention
and he wasted an extra quantum Of
Pinaud's eau de quinine in his enthu-
siasm. Then, seeing, that the piece
for the evening was Lecoqs latest, !
inspected the prix des places. The
boxes were f.4O and f.2O. The seats
ranged from f8 to f2 Being stran-
ger and having a nose for thrift, and,
as matter OF fact, unused to paying
anything at all at a theatre door, I
made special inquiry at the box Office,
which impressed me at the time as
having a lonesome look about it, as
to the f.2 seats. The boxkeeper was
very polite, indeed. He took me with.
in and pointed out the diagram of the
house. found that the f.2 seats diff.
tered from the f.8 seats simply in be,
ing cane-bottoned chairs instead OF
cushloned-armed chairs, and in tho
additional circumstance that they
could not be reserved in advance;
''But," said my obliging conductor;
''for very small gratuity the loge
keeper will reserve you the very best
places" The loge keeper was called,
and paying for six f.2 seats. told her
that if she would hold them for me
upon the first row would give her
franc. Then l departed, highly pleased
with my adventure in theatrical econ
omy.
That evening at $50 our party filed
into the Koursaai, which was brill
iantly Illuminated. At the door the
box-keeper met us hat in hand. Down
the center aisle the loge-keeper made
us a sweeping curtesy. She had six
chairs right in the center of the par
quette turned down for us. Outside
OF ourselves and these two officials OF
the place, there was not g. soul visible
anywhere. Not in a beggarly array,
but in a vast wilderness of empty
benches we sat down. After while
two rough looking customers entered
the gallery. Then a fashy lady and
gentleman strobe into one of the
boxes. Then the orchestar appear
ed. Next, half q dozen women and
men lOunged into various noints in
the surrounding spectacle of vacuity.
At 8 o'clock, the fddles began to
tweak. At $50 the curtain rose. At
1890 we left in the middle Of the first
act: Next day I learned that after
we had gone the performance ceased.
It was, in fact, simply an adjunct OF
the gambling house back of the stage
"a decoy duck, SO to say-and our
fellow-auditors were markers, look
outs, dealers, croupiers, male and fe-
Male, attached to the establishment.
IL was indeed play house.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1886-09-15
A lady in Harlem has spent twer

A lady in Harlem has spent twenty
years in stringing together 5000
beautiful buttons, and no two alike.
Some OF them have been brought half
around the earth to her by sea cap
tains. Some have come from old
wars and famous battle fields; some
from the Orient and some from the
Occident; some from gold mines and
poor-houses, from snug country
houses and from shipwrecks; some
are just from the button counter and
some are dignifed old buttons which
have survived from previous CEN
fury and now hold sinecure positions
on Mrs. Harris's button string.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1886-09-15

The direct and only line running through caxE
between Minneapolis and Des Noines,
Iowa, via Albert Lea and Fort
Dodee.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1886-09-15
Three years ago woodchucks became

Three years ago woodchucks became
so abundant and so destructive in La
Porte county, Ind, that the authori-
ties offered a bounty of 20 cents for
each woodchuck scalp. The first year
2,875 scalps were presented; the Sec
ond, $40; the third, 1914 total
of Is, 1856 scalps, on which was paid
$3,177,2O. Some men make a regular
business of hunting woodchucks.
The chestnut crop in New York
promises to be the largest grown for
years.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1886-09-15

cutting window in the north side
and putting a little 1oofov the door
to keep out the sun, 1t would be quite
comfortable in there; and then Just
set out "a maple to shade it after a
ywhile.'
'Dear me! / never thought of that;
Ut is a terrible hot room in summer,
that's a fact!"
~'Will you fix it? How it would
please mother!'
H'Well, l'll-Pll see! Sometime when
Inject the carpenter I'll ask what it'll
cost, an if st amt too steep why,
mebbe-''
Nhst's settled then; tell him we
want it next waek!"
Mr.. Lee gasped for breath, and be-
took hims elf to the dusky quiet of the
barn, where, as yet, he was master.
Like as not she'll take notion to
boss the barn, an the critters. am
everything else 'forsiong," he said to
himself and the Aldenney, as he strok-
ed her sleek. sides; ISM Miles got
such a way with, her that if she does
take a notion, she will. Declare if the
child amt gitin' to be a rss,'lar vixen;
an there won't be no peace till she's
got all them things done THAT she's
atot her heart onto. / wish she was
q teetle tot again, or else would be
kifsder meek like her mother
Meanwhile, gentle Mrs. Lee, who had
heard most Of the conversation
through an open window, was talking
to her spirited daughter:
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1886-09-15

There are still 1,soO Cherokee In
dams in Western North Carolina, where
they hold $4,000 acres of land by
deed of trust. They are urged 10 20
to Indian Territory, and are consid-
ering the matter.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1886-09-15
THE ROYAL ROUTE
Chicago. st. Paul, Minneapolis
& OMAHA,
AND
CHICAGO E. NORTHWESTERN RY'S,-.

The shortest and best route East to Chicago
With dining cars elegant day coaches and palace
smoking room sleepers on nil trains from Minnie.
apos and ST. Paul, through Eau Claire and
Madison, with choice OF route Milwaukee,
The Chicago St. Paul. Minneapolis and Omaha,
Railway also run through trainssouthnext FROM
St. Paul and Minneapolis to Sioux City A1,d Coun-
Bluffs with sleeping cars through without change
to St. Joseph and Kansas City, and is the short,
quick route from St Paul, through trains run
TO Ashland, Washburn and Bayfield, Lake Sa-
pcTior: and from Eau Claire. to Superior City,
where connection il made for Duluth. hut thiG
route to Chicago is what the m anaee take pride
In and because Of the smooth steel ran track.
well ballasted road he'd. the best Dag Coaches,
Sleeping and Dining Cars that NJ oney can procure.
courteous and attentFvs employees, and With
trains always on time, it Is rightly namec
National Republican., 1886-10-30
Strength of Marine Cables.

MhnNlAttuf"fs tdIcle.l
4 submarine cable is by no means of uni
form strength, the thickness depending to
a large extent on the depth Of water. For
instance, shore end in the shallowest
water aud subject to the greatest danger
from the anchors of vessels will he the
heaviest portion, sometimes going as high
us twenty-seven tons 10 u kuOt. In form
ing the shore end cable the core Is covered
with hemp aud u double shcathing OF iron
wire, the inner shcathiug being of twelve
wires of Il diameter Of O.l25 inch and the
outer sheathiug fourteen wires, with II
diameter Of 04SO inch. The outside Is
covered with hemp yarn aud bitumimOus
compound. the whole weighing about six
teen tons per nautical mile. \ portion Of
the intermediate cable is covered with
twelvrs wires, 02j2 inch in diameter,
weighing in all five tons; another portion Is
covered with twelve steel wires u, lGj inch
iu diameter, weighing about three tons
The deep sea Is covered with twelve steel
wires, OSi Inch in diameter, and again
covered with tape aud twenty hemp cords,
each Of the twelve steel wires being covered
with tape aud preservation compound.
The steel wire has breaking strain of
eighty four tons TO the square inch BY
adding the hemp cords, the tensile strength
Is increased and the specific gravity reduced
so as to enable the cable to he laid in very
deep water The total breaking strain of
this cable Is about six tons and 1t Will bear
about ten miles Of its own length In water
National Republican., 1886-10-30
NKETS

We haven t a pair but that
are worth more money than
we ask for them.
Buying direct and in large
quantities enables us to name
prices, which, under other
circumstances, would be an
impossibility.
The stock l. larger than ever; the
Variety more extensive than ever.
The prices, quality considered, are
LOWER than ever, Hud we are pre-
pared 10 do ~ larger BUSINESS than
ever