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Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1888-10-13

Farmers, IL you want to trade hay,
oats, chickens, or anything, for some
fine corned beef, call and see f. w. Cock
burn. 25
Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1888-10-13
CARPETS.

Ifyou want to buy carpet don't fall
to see our line Of samples. Oyer thirty
different patterns to select from. We
can save you money and give you much
better selection. 2tf T. T. LRR.
Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1888-10-13
Treesl Treesl Trees!

5000 ash. elm and box elder, Que and
two years old, from 81 per 1000 up: In
quire at Barr's store. z6D
Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1888-10-13
Money,

Henry w. Lord (ex-reg,ster), land At
torney and loan office. Five year loans
made on all good final proofs. Land
Office building, Devils Lake. 2btf
Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1888-10-13

Home cured hams speciality at F. w.
Cockburn's. Everybody wants them.
Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1888-10-13

SohIitz's Milwaukee beer on drauaht
at the Capital.
Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1888-10-13

sohlltx's Milwaukee beer In plnt bot.
tlss for family use, ct the ospttal.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1888-11-08

plainly showed he wanted to be let
alone.
Naturally enough such conduct ex-
cited the wonder of the settlers, and in
time. their distrust and suspicion. With
them, for a man to be unsocial was
OF itself crime. and as old Corbin
steadily refused their advances to be
friendly and neighborly, their ssspi-
cions soon became settled into convic-
lions that there was something wrong
with him. To this general impression
there was one single exception. Uncle
Archibald Wilson always had a good
word to say for old Corbin. Uncle
Archie, as he was called, was one of
those kind-hearted old men who never
speak i'll of any one. He seemed to be
always full of sympathy for any of his
fellow-creatures when i'll was spoken
of them in his presence. He used to
frankly admit that he knew no more OF
Corbin's history than did any of his
neighbors. But" he would say, '.it'a
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1888-11-08
Care of Heifer Calves.

Our heifer calf should be we'll fed,
well housed and kept warm in the
winter, for in a stable of good light
and pure air, she will develop the kind
OF hardness that dairy cows need. the
oats and bran will give solid bone and
strong muscle and nerve, and also
build up the embryo life that she must
otherwise rob herself of to supply, or
leave incomplete. Then our heller, if
MIXED as long as possible the first
year of her dairy life, generously fed
to make good, rich blood, out of
which to make good milk--for milk
giving is first blood secretion gov
erned by nerve FORGIVE shall. as a
rule, find we have a profitable dairy
COW. This COW should be retained as
long as she profitably pays her keep,
then sold as a 'sausager" for what she
will bring; for he holds that no man
ever fattened an old dairy COW to a
profit Better by far put this food
into COW that does give milk. and
get pay for food consumed.-America
d0ricu(furist
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1888-11-08

body was found lying close to where l
had fallen unconscious from the blow
he had dealt me.
Eyes; James Corb committed the
deed. He confessed it to me that
night when after nearly twenty years
of searching 1 had found him and in
his own cabin confronted him with
my proofs.
"Need l say more? His parents are
both dead. He has no living heirs.
My wife has lain in her grave, and
during all these years her innocent
blood has called for vengeance. My
folks have not known me nor seen me
since began my wanderings immedi-
ately after regaining my health and
recovering from the terrible shock of
my poor wife's murder. / have ac-
complished my purpose, and now, hav-
ing nothing more to live for as soon
as l shall have posted this letter, l
shall end forever all my troubles on
earth. TO you, then, as to world
which for me has been a most I'M
happy one, say farewell.
"ROBERT WILGUs."
MIR. Wilson turned this remarkable
letter over to the court, the Judge of
which took immediate steps to have
the man apprehended and brought to
justice. But he was too late. In an
swer to his letter directed to the county
Judge of the town from which the
murderer of old Corbin had dated his
confession. he received brief epistle
stating that Wilgus had committed SUI
icide some weeks before and was there
fore beyond the reach or jurisdiction
of all earthly courts and judges.
There is little more to add. Old Cor
bins property reverted to the county
in which it was situated. The farm
was leased out until it was all cleared
up and put in fine state of cultiva-
ton and was then made the county
poor farm. 1t was while / was visit
ing there recently that Mr.. White. the
superintendent, related to me the story
of old Corbin's death. On my return
to the county seat town went to the
courthouse and searched among the
old probate records until found the
final report of Archibald Wilson IS adj
ministrator of the estate of James Cor
bin. In this was filed the strange let
ter already given, and which solved
the mystery of old Corbin's life and
death. Ed. r. PRITCHARD.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1888-11-08

owner. For old Corbin was a mystery,
and therefore a character the discus
sion of which was always ready and
interesting topic among the country
folks far and near; of these there were.
among the older people, those who
had known old Corbin for twenty years,
and yet they really knew no more about
him than did the most recent new
conner in the neighborhOod. Some
twenty years had he lived alone in the
little cabin on the bluffs. Indeed, he
was one of the pioneer settlers of the
to the settlement, the whole country
was an almost unbroken forest; here
and there, at intervals of several miles,
stood the cabins of a few hardy settlers
who had migrated to the then new
State, the far West of those days, and
among these was Corbin, then a man
of middle age, and in strength and
physical rigOr a magnificent specimen
of manhood
On his arrival he had at once entered
a claim for quarter section of land
extending along the creek bluffs, and
building his little cabin set about clear
ing up patch of ground Immediately
adjoining. This was accomplished in
a year or two, and with it ended all
his efforts towards making a farm.
He, however, was no idler; and when
not engaged in working his little
truck-patch was busy with his. traps,
or. with gun and dogs, roamed the
woods in search of game. And so
the years went by; the country
settling up until cultivated farms sur
rounded Corbin on every side.
He had closer neighbors and more of
them, but beyond exchanging the
barest civilities when he met them
old Corbin went on his way and about
his own affairs in manner that
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1888-11-08
Village Destroyed by Ice.

Advices from the fishing village CT
Kerschkaranza, in KOla, a peninsula
on the White Sea, describe wonder
fnl phenomenon, new in Attic annals.
which took place on January 5 last.
At four o'clock in the morning the in
habitants were awakened by a series
of heavy, dull detonations, like heavy
artillery. Shortly afterward a great
ice wall to the northwest, several hum
dred feet high, was seen to be NOV
ing toward the village, doubt
less in consequence Of the pressure OF
the ocean of ice outside. The ice hills
came slowly but irresistibly onward
and passed over the village. which they
completely erased. and kept onward
for a mile inland. The ice travelled
mile and a half in four hours. The
villagers saved their lives, but little
else. Philadelphia Rrsas-
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1888-11-08

turning from her parents in the VII
lage. where we had been to spend the
day, to our own home on my little farm
in the neighborhood of my fathers.
The country was rather new. and a
goodly portion of our road lay
through the woods. We were driving
slowly along, trusting mainly to our
good horse to pilot us safely in the
road, when, of sudden. a man on
horseback darted from the roadside
and struck me heavy blow on the
head. 1 heard my poor wife scream.
and that is all l remember until the
next day when l came to in my fathers
house. And, o God. what an awaken
ing that was!
Il will not harrow you with the
terrible details of story which is so
painful. Suffice it to say my darling
wife had been murdered. Her dead
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1888-11-08
IMPORTANT DECISION.
A Maryland Judge Decides When One Il
q Passenger, and When Not.

A Maryland Judge Decides When One Is
Passenger, and When Not.
Has person riding in horse-car a
right to leave the car for any purpose
and then return to it to resume the
ride without paying second fare?
That is a point of frequent dispute
between conductors and passengers.
It was the cause of lawsuit that was
recently carried to the highest court of
Maryland, which rendered an elaborate
opinion on the law in the matter.
A man riding on one of the Balti-
more street-cars complained that he
was insulted by the driver and told the
latter he would report him. The
passenger remained on the car until
about block away from the COM
pany's Office, when he got off and hur-
ried toward the Office with the inten-
ton of reporting the driver and then
resuming his trip on the car. Mean
time the driver jumped off, followed
the passenger and assaulted him. The
latter thereupOn sued the company for
damages.
The Court of Appeals assumed that
the company would be liable if the
person was passenger at the time he
was assaulted by the driver But was
he passenger in view of the fact that
he had left the car? The court held
that he was not. and hence that the
oonDanv waS mot liah1o
The rule it laid down is that a pass
enger has a right to ride to the termi-
nus of the line il he chooses. 1t added
that he may also leave the car tempo
rarily and return to it, provided he
gives the conductor notice of his intent
and the conductor assents. In such
case his right to continue his ride is
not forfeited, and he remains a passen-
ger even when off the car. But if he
leaves the car without giving such no
tice it is to be assumed that he has ter.
minated his trip, that the contract be-
tween him and the company is at az
end and that he is no longer passen
ReY.-N T. Herald
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1888-11-08
THEY ARE SEVEN.

"How many roses are there, dear:"
asked little maid.
"Seven," she answered, counting them
With eyes demurely staid
"Why, no, dear; one has fallen down
Here on the shelf, you see;
And standing in the pretty vase
Together there are three.
"The other three are in the glass,
Only reflected there.
She looked and nodded in assent,
That little maiden fair.
sThree in the vase, one fallen down,
And in the mirror three:
Add them together, auntie dear;
There will be seven, you see."
Itook the vase down from the shelf.
Now, Annie, come, look here;
Only four roses with them all
Tocether-that is clear"
With eyes serene, and far more calm
Than WORDSWORTH little maid,
Sweet Annie heard my protest through,
And listened und .snayed.
IF were you," she gently said,
With blue eyes raised to Heaven.
I'D put them back there on the shelf,
And then there would be seven"
And. after all, is she not right:
It's just the pointAof view;
A grateful heart knows how to make
One blessing seem like two.
Alice w. Rollins, IN " Y. Independent
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1888-11-08
REST BEFORE EATING.
How q Sufferer from Nervous Prostra.
tion Found Relief.

How Sufferer from Nervous Prostra.
| tion Found Relief.
Mr.. A. l. Root, suffering nervous
prOstration from mental Overwork,
finally found much relief by the easy
expedient of taking nap each fore
noon or afternoon; and at last he be-
gan to observe that when these bits of
rest came just before meal-time he
could sit at the table without expert
encing the former symptoms of ex-
haustion, and digest food with less in
convenience. The remainder of the
story we quote in his own words from
Gleanings in Bee Culture.
Then it occurred to me that DIR.
Salisbury used to almost insist that
should never eat meal without first
being rested thoroughly for twenty
minutes or half an hour on lounge
or bed. He said it was far better to
have good sleep before eating; but if
l could not sleep. lie still without
sleep. My wife has urged this very
point for years; but / have usually
been so busy just before meal-time
could not get around to it. For some
time back. however, / have been tax
ing just half an hours sleep before
dinner and supper; and if any sort of
patent medicine had ever given me
such lift in the way of health, it
would very likely have been doomed
about as well as / could boom
it. The philosophy of it seems to be:
Ii you want man to do good piece
of work, he should be well fed and
well rested. Yes, the same is true
even of horse. Well, DR.. S. declared
it was task for weak constitution
to properly digest a meal of victuals:
and he declared further that no con-
stitution could digest food properly
when it was exhausted and run Gown
to the very last notch; and if any one
attempts to get along in this war he
will sooner or later find himself broken
down entirely"
All the heavy laden-tired house
wives in particular-are urged to
adopt this simple course of recuper-
alton:
"You are not saving time by sitting
down to your meals so worn out that
the hand trembles with fatigue that
raises the food to your lips. You will
get along faster. and accomplish more,
by taking this kind of rest If it seems
to you impossible. and you are in
clined to smile at the idea of a half-hour
nap before dinner and supper, then I
shail direct my appeals to your husband.
your sons and your daughters. As you
value the life and the presence of this
patient, hard-wOrking mother. make
her take that needful rest, just as my
wife and children have been making
me use the good common sense God
has given US ALL
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1888-11-08
HOME. FARM AND GARDEN.


-Mignonctte and other plants will
live for many years if the flowers are
plucked as fast as they fade. but il
the seed is allowed to perfect they are
but annuals-the plant dies.
Cream Sponge Cake.-Break two
eggs into q cup. fill to the brim with
sweet cream; then add one cup of
sugar. two teaspoOnfuls of baking
powder. and enough flour to make .
stiff batter. Flavor with lemon.
If the feed in the COW pasture is
beginning to dry up and become short,
feed the cows some kind of fodder at the
barn If you wish to keep up the flow of
milk. When the flow is once de-
creased at this season it is hard to in
crease it.
Tho orange-colored rust on the
raspberry and blackberry bushes is
fungus which spreads rapidly. and
will soon ruin an entire plantation un-
less prompt measures are resorted to.
The digging up ard burning of all
affected plants is the only known
remedy.
Sweet potatoes in winter require
temperature of sixty degrees. They
will not suffer exposed to temper
allure of fifty-six degrees, but it should
not be allowed to fall below that.
When first stored in the cellar they
must be kept at seventy degrees until
well dried. when it may fall to sixty.
Sweet Potato Fluff.-Boil until
tender six medium-sized potatoes.
When done, remove the skins and press
the potatoes through a colander. Add
gill of hot cream, tablespoonful of
salt and little wife pepper. Beat
until light. and then stir in carefully
the wellbeaten whites of three eggs.
Heap in baking dish, brown and
serve.
Sheep in some respects are very
tender, delicate animals. They can
bear great deal of cold. but they can
not bear wet, either under foot or on
their backs; and if a flock-master at
tempts to winter his sheep without
shelter enough to keep them dry.
though it may not be enough to fur
nish much warmth, he will not get a
good fleece.
Nursery Pudding. -Measure half
pint OF soaked bread. beaten as above
directed; add one tablespoonful of corn
flour, first mixed with half pint Of
milk and boiled for few minutes
Beat the whole until cool, then Stir in
one egg. spread a little jam at the bot
tom of a CREASED pie-dish. pour in the
bread mixture, and bake in a moderate
oven for half an hour.
The late fowls do not usually have
as large combs as those Matched earlier,
nor will they grow to become heavy
weights. 1t is difficult to secure good
winter layers from late birds. but for
spring work they are fully equal to any
others. They are shorter-legged and
more compact in body than the early
birds, and produce as large. vigorous
chicks, but the mixture of early and
late fowls gives an appearance lacking
in shape and uniformity; hence all late
birds should be kept together instead
of being with the others.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1888-11-08

Americans generally, including
journalists, write the plural of ''pota-
to- with an e, while without it, as the
word is largely written in England. it
looks scanty. Notwithstanding we can
accept ''tomatos'' without difficulty.
It is only a matter of time, doubtless,
before all such words will be spelled
without the in the plural.-Americ0n
Queen
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1888-11-08
OLD CORBIN.
A Tragic Story of Early Days
in EOOsierdOm.
Written for This Paper

\ the bluffs that
to W cred high
above the turbu-
lent, but yet ro-
mantle Wildcat,
stood old Corbin' S
cabin. For miles
around it was a
landmark; not be-
cause it was a
conspicuous OBJ
ject, but because
of the m Us t cry
which enshrOuded
it and its eccentric
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1888-11-08

Some dinner-plates have been dec
GRATED with pictures of bull-fght
Nothing could be more appropriate
when the plate becomes the scene of q
hand-to-hand struggle between a table
knife and a tough steak.-N o. Pho.
GyuHe.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-12-07

The Davenport Democrat Gazette favors
brick as paving material in preference
to asphalt, cobble stones, cedar blocks or
other wood pavement. 1t says:
Public attention is turning to brick as
q substitute for stone and wood. 1t has
been in use several years at Bloomington
ILL.,, and also in Virginia with most salts
factory results. Clay is the ore alumni
mum, and when properly mixed and Wit
rified, becomes an igneous rock. unaf-
fected by heat, water or frost. 1t is a
greater resisting power against shock than
granite, it is homogeneous, slightly elas-
tic; has the grit which will bite steel or
iron; will neither act upon or be acted
upon by horses shoes; has more per
feet bearing than stone; can be laid more
compact; is noiseless. dustless, non>ab,
s0rbent, and therefore healthful.
From a sanitary standpoint impervi
BUSINESS to water and moisture is an all
important requisite of street pavement
Every sanitarian is cognizant of the dan>
ger from soil contamination and pollu-
ton; that filth sodden soil has bad
influence upon health by the effiuvia en-
anating therefrom. The constituents oil
street filth are multifarious excrets and
urine of animals, garbage. kitchen water
house Stops, human excreta solid ant
liquid. With pefvious pavement thi,
foul mess lie washed and soah ed into the
soil, exposing wells to pollution. AMI
dwelling houses to poison by ''grount
air.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-12-07

It is not often that Henry n Wiley, the
polite and affa 10 clerk at the Grand Pacific
is nonplussed by any rag or trick perpe-
trated by the would he funny guests that
quarter themselves at thls popular hotel, but
one evening last week lie was compelled TO
own up beaten 4 serious looking individual,
one who, it would seem, did not even know
the nature Of a joke, came in with sachel
and umbrella, and, taking the pen the ever
ready Wiley always hands with a bow and
a smile that twists his blonde mustache into
acrobatic contortions, be made nine perpen-
dicular dashes on the register Il may be
said right here that Mr.. Wiley has the repu-
tation of knowing everybody, but it is only
his cunning that has earned 1t for him. He
always watches man registering, and has
accustomed himself to reading letters upside
down, 50 that when he catches the first few
letters of mans name lie guesses at the rest,
and when the guest has finished writing and
looks W Mir. Wiley ct once calls him by bis
name, though he appears to be looking al
anything else than the book In this way il
makes no difference if man comes there fol
the first time in his life, Mr. Wiley will sur
prise HIM by putting out his hand and calling
the proper name.
On the occasion in question, however Mr.
Wiley was done up; he had never seen tn,
man before and he could not make anything
out Of the straight lines. With his PEI
flourish he swung the register around anC
said What price room do you want Mr.
Mr. By the way, what do those line
mean, anyway, Might 1 ask your name
''Oh, excuse me-" said the stranger. "Ineg
lected to finish my signature, and, taking
up pen, made horizontal dash at abou
the middle and in between the first three pai
of uprights, when the signature read, H
H. Hill" Mr.. Wiley owned that for one
that he was beaten--Chicago Herald
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-12-07
The fashionable Fox Terrier.

The fashionable puppy is the bull or fox
terrier, with a decided leaning in favor Of
the last. The fox terrier is, in the first place,
dog easily taken care of, for be enjoys his
bath and comes out Of it a thing of beauty,
for his skin is so glossy. Then he can be
taught no end of very clever tricks OF his
abilities in the way Of cat and rat catching
nothing need be said; but when he is the
smart pet of the season he is not asked to de-
vote himself to such material occupation He
wears a rough, black cover piped with
orange, for this shade is the color of the
legion of honor for dogs He has silver
collar with his mistress address on it, but
not his name, for it is trusted that if be is lost
the ever pervading district messenger boy
will return him, and not by reason Of the
knowledge of his name strike up an acquain'
lance with him and detain him until the re-
ward has been doubled or even trebled. The
fox terrier prefers to walk, so that the COM
ing man will not see the ladies OF his estab
lishment carrying around pet dog.-"Babs'
Letter