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Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1898-04-15
"Rescue on the Brain"

A story about q dog, told in an Eng.
Nsh sporting book. "The Man on the
March," brings out the fact that too
much praise may be as injurious as too
much fault finding.
A half bred retriever pulled u girl out
Of the river near her home. OF course
the dog was much praised and petted,
and this brought on what the author
calls an attack Of "rescue on tho brain"
No man. no feathered biped, no quad
ruped, was allowed to go into the river
without being pulled out by the dog.
Cows were rot allowed to drink, ducks
and geese wore not allowed to swim,
and II an angler attempted to wade he
was RESCUED against his will"
Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1898-04-15

OF Bishop Short, who held the see of
st. Asaph, many curious stories are
told. Occasionally he put questions 10
candidates for ordination that apparent
ly had no connection with the discharge
of their parochial duties. They tested,
probably, their wit or tact. two neces.
sary qualifications to public men. but
nothing more. One such question pro.
posed by the bishop was the following:
(Which has the greatest number Of legs
"a cat or no cat?"
AS might DO expected this created q
litter, but the bishop would not take o
laugh as tho answer and consequently
he repeated the question aud desired
some II to solve the problem. At last
one Of the candidates, smiling, said, 81
should think, my lord, a cat"
"No." retorted tho bishop; "there
yon are wrong, for a cat has four legs
and no cat has five. "-London Tele.
graph.
Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1898-04-15
Accommodating Road.

A bit of dialogue reported by The
New Jamaica affords a good specimen
Of tho dialect Of tho island, and ut the
same time shows the weakness of the
native Judgment in regard to distances.
Glow far is 1t to Cherry Garden?"
INA too faa, maastah."
"Thank you. Where does this road
go?"
"'E go wehevah you wansteh 90,
sah."
Accommodating road"
"Yessah, anywhere you wish, es"-
"Does it go to Hope Garden or Con-
slant Spring or Monay"
"No, sab, none O. dem places, sab. 1t
jts' goes wehevah you wants to go. sab,
an faint too faa."
Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1898-04-15
Some Haif-Cut..

"There are lots of men," says Phil
adelphia barber, "who are very particu-
Lac about hair cuts, but wouldn't have q
word to say IL they didn't have to pass
inspection before their wives when they
go home. l know one woman who goes
90 far as to accompany her husband to
the barber shop. Therd's q regular GUS
toner Of mine who is always attended
by his wife when he gets his hair cut,
and she stands right back of me while
l work. Every few minutes l stop, and
she looks over his head and makes sug-
g~estions about q little more of here, ,
don't shave his neck aud a lot Of such,
comments. The waiting customers en-
joy 1t pretty we'll, but I'll bet you he
will want q divorce in a year, if be
hasn't asked for it already. Elk
change.
Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1898-04-15
AND MS cAelNefss|
rhe UaexpssssA DisssvsrysB H 5000
Thsir Appoa1emerAa.

Aoe Dsoo0voSy IL 81
Thsir Appeiatassas. zs
Nj. F. "a prominent bistoFSealWst
went to President Lincoln to II anfnS
pointment, and being mixed of s1h6tds
nomination be wss Shswersd t6a3skS
was o Presbyterian. Well nidr
ident Lincoln, 81 will have to l0ote66
my book to see. He furthef mid: ssI
am not sure but the Presbytszians ne
full. I have to do this.
Mr.. Lincoln then proceeded: "Bishop
Simpson vas here the other day co1.
planning of my cabinets giving III 49,
appointments to Episcopaliana. sdid
not know anything about my onbfpss.
I thought Blair q good old P~resbytarian
name. and al for Seward. l didn't know
until I went to church with him that
he was an Episcopalisn."
President Lincoln had said to Bishop 1
Simpson: "You wait here. We 90 O.
have q cabinet meeting here direcsly,
and I will sec to it. and when the OH
met came he said. Here IL Bishop
Simpson making q complaint Of our nv.
ing all the appointments to the Epfnoo.
%palians."
Said Seward: "That il NOT txue q
my department.. ! never give an ap-
pointment to any man because .of his
denomination, nor oven know what he
is."
Said Bishop Simpson: '.There was
DR.. McClintock. appointed to % 70
Paris, q good Methodist, and Biabop
Hughes was put in his place. I suppose
you didn't know, sir, who Bishop
Hughes was?" "Oh, I had forRotten
about him."
"Well." said Blair. you've got him
there, bishop, but there are not two IN
my department that are Episcopaliana
"Sir," said tho bishop, there are not
two that are not" "Why, said Blair.
that il not true, and you may oome
tomorrow morning and look for your.
SELF"
II will BIO there at such . time" and
no was there. As he went in Blair aid.
"Ah. bishop, you got Seward splendid
ly yesterday" Bishop Simpson aaid, IT
do not come to hear about him, but
about your department"
II haven't time to see about that"
"Sir. it il of moro Importance than you
know. Yesterday you said there were
not two who wero Episcopaliana, and I
said there were not two that were not
E%piscopalians, aud 70 he forced him
to look Mt it, and no found that the
bishop wal correct, aud that there were
not two that were not Episcopalians.
All this Mr.. Lincoln said to Nj. f.,
who communicated it to one Of the bat
known citizens Of this country. q man
OF unimpeachable veraoity and equal 90.
curacy, who communicated it to ua-
Christian Advocate.
Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1898-04-15
American Securities Abroad.

The sales of American securities
have been, according to London
advices, very large abroad Of late. If
this state of things holds, there will DO
an increasing influx Of British gold
into this market. This demonstrates
the faith abroad in tho stability of our
credit. There is another point Of faith
for which the people not only of this
but foreign countries have good
grounds for crcdence, and that is he.
lief in the efficacy of IIostettcr's
Stomach Bitters forinorganic maladies
which effect the stomach, liver, bowels,
kidneys and nerves. Dyspepsia, bilious
ness, constipation and rheumatism are
conquered by it. 1t hastens GONZALES
cence, and diffuses a generous warmth
and sensation of physical comfort
through the system.
Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1898-04-15
Treasouabie Language.

Because he would not rush all I'M
prepared to war at the behest of the
sensation-mongers President Mckinley
is being harshly criticised by the
belligerent shedders of ink who are
enlisted in the New York newspaper
war. Some of them mildly condemn
the policy of delay, others insist that
there should be immediate recognition
of Cuban independence, and one, the
New York Journal, makes a vicious
personal assault on the president, de-
claring among other things that:
Mckinley condones the t%reacherous
murder of our sailors at Havana, and
talks of his confidence in sthe honor
of Spain"
He plays the coward and shiyers.
white faced, at the football of approach
ing war.
He makes an international cur of
his country.
He is an abject, weak, futile, incom,
petent poltroon.
Now every sane person in the land
knows that the above excerpt from the
Journals denunciatory editorial does
not contain one solitary word of truth,
and the man who wrote it knew that it
was false in every word and in every
thought. It is simply an unreasonable
and sensational charge made up of
equal parts of malevolent falsehood,
silly gush and impudent segotism.
There is not another country on earth
perhaps, whore an editor could thus
malign the chief magistrate without
being made to feel the lash Of tho law.
Aud 1t is such .unwhipped ours as these
that prate of treason in high places, of
c%owardice and hesitancy, of dlsloyal
public officials and u speaker-ridden
congress! How car the public be en-
pected to honor laws and sustain and
support those who administer them
when newspapers protesting to be
Democratic in their character descend
to the use of such language rs that
quoted! 1t is indeed fortunate that
the public is not educated in the
Journal school.
Throughout this crisis the president
has held his temper in command and
has met the tremendous issues of the
time as u statesman should. He has
not been swaycd by passion nor has
he permitted his naturally pacific
temperament to stay his hand when
the national honor babe him sign the
conditions of war. Had he listened to
' such advisers rs the journal he would
Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1898-04-15

EVERY movement made by President
Mckinley and his administration since
the Maine "a blown up indicates that
war wa anticipated. The purchase of
ships, of ammunition, of guns and
other paraphernalia of war, the con.
struction Of, coast defenses and the
massing of troops, all of which has
been going on continuously for two
months, indicates that no matter what
has been said there has been a stern
determination to end the war in Cuba
and avenge the loss of the Maine.
Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1898-04-15
An En,crprisinx Druggist.

There arc few men more wide awake
and cnterprising than c. w. Greene,
who spares no pains to secure the best
of everything in his line for his many
customers. lie has the valuable
agency for DR.. Kings New Discovery
for consumption, coughs and colds
This is the wonderful remedy that 10
producing such n Juror all over the
country by it's many startling cures.
1t absolutely cures asthma, bronchitiA
hoarseness and all affections Of the
throat, chest and lungs. Call at above
drug store and get q trial bottle free or
Il regular size for so cents and sl.OO.
Guaranteed to cure OF price refunded.
Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1898-04-15
A III to the Girls.

A bachelor philosopher remarks that
mo man ever wants to kiss q girl after
be has once seen her hold q nickel the
conductor has given her for change be.
tween her teeth while she gets her
purse open," and he further intimates
that such q girl Is only ct to kiss a pug
dog. OF course bachelors are not always
responsible critics. Boston Globe.
Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1898-04-15
NORTH DAKOTA NEWS

Fifteen entries were fled at the
Fargo land Office in one day.
Large colonies of Nebraska farmers
are moving to North Dakota.
Jamestown is to have q new state
bank with q capital of $4,000.
May Y. Duncanson has been ID.
pointed pcstmaster at Fort Berthold.
Ths State Of North Dakota has pur.
chased Hsmarck school bonds to the
amount Of ea6.00o.
Grand Forks county will tax parson.
ages that are rented and made a source
of prolific the church.
One Of the worst sand storms in
years prevailed a. Fargo Thursday.
Very little damage was done.
The Stark county boundary case has
been appealed to the supreme court by
the opponents Of the measure.
A party Of l24 settlers arrived at
Jamestown Thursday and will locate
north Of that city. They brought IL
cars Of freight.
Agent Swanson of the Great North.
ern, who was convicted of blindpiRginR
ut Buxton. will appeal the case to tho
supreme court.
Safe crackers entered the store of
Louis Steemke at Forman and rifed
the safe. They secured nothing but
valueless paper.
w. r. McGlenn Of Bowdie has on.
tered into q contract to build q Touring
mill at Harvey, the citizens devoting
$1,000 rs a bonus.
A prairie fire from the south gave
Steele q close call the other afternoon.
Everybody was out fighting it. The
fire extended back five miles east.
Plans for tho new Northern Pacific
depot are on exhibition at Fargo and
measurements are being taken for tho
location of the now structure. 1t will
cost $50. 900.
Mrs. A. H. Carmen of Paramount
had tho thumb torn from her right
hand by the sudden jerking back Of
her pet pony, tho halter being twisted
about that member.
A report on coal production, just is.
sued by tho geological survey, states
that North Dakota, during the calendar
year 1897, produced 20. 175 tons, valued
ut SO, S58, the average price being
slightly over 81 per ton.
Ducks and geese are making their ap.
pearance at Jamestown in larger mum.
bers than ever before. No ponds or
sloughs arc yet open and tho birds take
refuge in the stubble fields, where some
goods bags arc secured by hunters.
Pat McNulty aud John q. O'Grady
Of Valley Clay, who were convicted of
violating tho prohibition law and sen.
fenced to 90 days in tho county jail
and to pay o fine, were released upon
payment Of their fines, McNulty pay.
ing to the clerk Of the court $500 and
O'Grady $500.
The Cass county board Of commits.
stoners appropriated $3.50 to tho Trans.
mississippi congress fund on applica.
ton Of Colonel Lounsberry. No ap.
preparation has been made by the state
for an exhibition and the Valley couu.
ties will be asked to put up $3.50 each
and others 800.
The offer Of 5000 premium on s4o,.
600 asylum bonds that were to have
been issued for the erection of new
ward buildings has been withdrawn
owing to q question as to tho bonds
being state bonds and constitutional.
Tho $4,000 forfeit said to have been
put up was returned, rather than enter
into a legal contest over retaining it.
Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1898-04-15

to do = ,whsn 4 reconcsntrado named
Pedro Arrieta, once q very wealthy
man, furtisely warned me not to 60.
Therefore, instead of doing as I vas
ordered, / went with Senior Arrieta,
who took me to one place to supper,
and then moved me through back
alleys and by-ways from one house to
another until we had baffled the SOL
.diers who tried to follow us. Fortu-
nately, I succeeded in getting away the
next day.
"Blanco's revocation OF the recon
lcentrado order is as impudent q fraud
as any with which Spain has attempted
to deceive the government of the
United States. When the order was
issued blanks were distributed to he
filled out by the starving people in the
concentrate towns. The concentrate
was to state where he had lived, where he
desired to 60, and the help he required
in implements, clothing, food and
money. Thousands OF these blanks
were at once filled out and sent to
Havana, for all these poor wretches
ask is life, liberty, and permission to
till the fertile soil.
'Not a solitary permit had been is
sued under this order when 1 left Hav-
ana q week ago yesterday. The Span
ish government had not issued a single
ounce Of food, o a yard of cloth for
clothing Q a single dollar to save
these most pitiable creatures from
death by inches.
meantime Matanzas, with a normal
population Of 10000, has over $1,000
reconcentrados on the list for relief
from the Red Cross and other distribu-
tors Of American charity. They are
dying like murrained sheep, at the rate
of forty a day, from starvation and the
horrible train Ut indescribable diseases
which follow in starvation's wake. I
solemnly state that it is a mild esti-
mate to say that in Pinar del Rio, Hav-
ana, Matanzas, and Sagua lie Grande
5000 men, women, and little children
are doomed to inevitable death as the
result of starvation aud disease. SINH
lar proportions Of daily deaths from
starvation IT found in every town in
which the reconeentrados are penncd,
and sufficient soldiers are kept on
guard everywhere to shoot down the
poor wretches in cold blood the mo
ment they attempt to step across the
dead line.
"The Spanish assertion that the re-
Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1898-04-15
Dime Novel Cure.

Il had hard work to keep that boy Of
mine from reading cheap novels, said
the ~resolute man, "'but l finally sue.
ceeded."
"How? BY keeping them out Of his
way!"
"No. knew it would be Of no use
to try, SO ! merely required him to
learn two pages from one of them by
heart every day, and % he lodges
them and reads schoolbooks for amuse.
ment. "-Washington Star.
Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1898-04-15

The Grand Forks Herald is of the
opinion that the State Enforcement
league should not be criticised. Per
haps not, and yet it would do certain
members of the league no harm if they
were inoculated with Q modicum of
common sense. Particularly is this
true of those who abuse Attorney Gen.
eral Cowan, in which list may be
classed the Herald.
Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1898-04-15

THE people who are so unanimously
in favor of war, and SO prolific in their
abuse of President Mckinley, will
probably get all the war they want be-
fore they get through with it. And
then the question is-wiil they fight.
Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1898-04-15

concentrate order has been revoked,
and that the revocation is operative, is
an infamous, shameless falsehood. The
dispassionate statement Of Senator
Proctor, describing the conditions,
may have seemed a fearful ~arraign-
ment of Spain, to the philosophlc
mind. I tell you that 1t did not cover
one inch of ground to the acre. The
pathetic description and appeal of
Senator Thurston may have seemed
moving to the emotional nature. / tell
you it fell a hundred miles short of the
actual facts. l am not emotional-on
the contrary. Yet the sights I wit
messed with my own eyes Embossed the
fonts that have been dry since my
childhood, and l pray God I may never
again look upon such hopeless, help
less suffering and misery as l saw in
fiicted upon Cuban women and child
rem by Spain, the moral monster of the
nineteenth century.
"As for the Spanish troops, poor
wretches, they, too, are starving. They
are mainly young boys of from IA to IS
years, with nothing of the soldier
about them. They are in arrears for
their pay for ten months, and while on
guard duty will humble themselves to
beg aims Of q hated American to buy
something to eat. Repeatedly l have
distributed among the sentries every
penny Of small change J. and my in
terpreter could scare up. They are not
drilled, they have no discipline, they
are kicked and cuffed about by their
officers like dogs, and they pathetically
ask:
Why have they brought us here?
Why do we have to kill these poor peo-
pie? What harm have they eyer done
to us? Madre di Dios! 1t is cruel-it
is wicked
'They have no education whatever
no conception of liberty, and it is an
unending wonder to them that the
Cubans should fight for such a very
peculiar aus as that. They will obey
their officers, though, to the death.
The officer is an a%ristocrat, the soldier
a peasant, and he has no ambition
above that humble station in life to
which it has pleased a merciful Proyi-
dence to call him.
Il spent a day at the wreck of the
Maine on March q, through the court
esq of Captain Sigsbee, and may say
that there has never been a moment of
doubt since the divers began their
work az to the responsibility of high
Spanish officials for a premeditated
disaster"
No-To-Bac for rifty Cents.
Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1898-04-15
Hon. P. H. RouRkE, of Lisbon, has
been appointed United States district
attorney.

BETWEEN April / and 13-eleven
working days-466 homestead filings
were made in the Devils Lake land
office. It is safe to say that this office
is doing more business than any other
office in the United States.
Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1898-04-15
CAPTAIN EVANS
Ham,ine Won the Prize.

NoRTHFlELD, Mimi, April 9.-In
the 18th annual contest of the Mime.
sofa intercollegiate Oratorical associa.
tion held here, Thomas d. Schall of
Hamline university was awarded first
prize. and Raymond A. Wallace Of
Carleton college second prize.
Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1898-04-15

The facilities for inland t~xanspoeta.
ton are so limited in Brazil that the
inhabitants Of the ports find It cheaper
to import grain from North America
than from their own farms.
Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1898-04-15
After the COMFORT.

Mr.. Wellwood-How did you like
Nine. Medley?
Miss Highrocks-She was wretohed.
Mr.. Wellwood-l'm astonishsd 10
hear you say that. I Thought she was
in fine voice.
Miss Highrocks-Oh, her voioe may
have been all right, but I'm suro the
gown she wore never could have been
made in aris.-.Cleveland Leader.
Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1898-04-15
.lhe York cIoth militia AZ Sac,

Ihe York cloth mills at Saco, Me-,
employing $4,000 hands, started in all
departments Monday, nearly all the
strikers returning to work.
The p~ostofice department. awarded
to p. G. Richardson Of Seattle, WASH,
the contract for carrying mail between
st. Michaals and Weare. Alaska, q dis.
lance of 800 miles
Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1898-04-15

The jcllyfsh has no teeth. but uses
himself as il he were IL piece Of paper
when no is hungry, getting his food and
then wrapping himself about It.
Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1898-04-15
Byrea.a S,arrlas..

Swift said, "No wise man ever mar.
ried." Byron's marriage was an act 81
!lunacy. The very manner Of its begin
ming was insincere and theatrical. His
friends had been urging him to marry.
60 he wrote two proposals-sort Of
"sealed tenders"-and sent them to two
young ladies. One Of them declined, tho
other accepted. Naturally Byron mar
rled the latter. The rest is known, and
for this part of his life has the poet suf-
fered strongest criticism. It did not die
with his death, but the evil that he did
lived after him, while the good was
seemingly ''cntombed with his bones"
Tue world holds as most potent proof
Of his insinccrity that he mado his
wife's existence o purgatory, finally
drove her from his house, even refusing
to shake hands with her at the last
goodby, and then wrote:
@ Fare thee well. and, II forever.
Still forever fare thee Welt
Even though unforGiving, never
Gainst thee sl,all my heart rebel.
These words were set to music and
sung with tears by young girls all over
the English speaking world. who felt
that Lady Byron was u hard hearted,
wicked wretch to SO desert her grief
crushed husband. III fact, tho poor lady
never saw the verses until she boheld
them in print aud read with astonished
eyes:
Fire thee wolll Thus disunited,
Torn from every nearer tic.
Scared In heart md love and blighted,
Moro than this l scurco can diel
At tho same moment this singer Of
pathetic songs was alternating between
"bearing the pageant of his bleeding
heart" through Europe and c~onsoling
himself literally with Miss Jane Clcr.
mont.-Chicago Times. Herald.
Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1898-04-15

have plunged the country into II war
In which the whole of Europe might
have been against us. by ignoring
the Journal and all its kind he has
reduced the problem to II of right
and wrong between these two nations,
with Cuba's independence rs the stake
and America us her savior. s.. Paul
Dispatch.
Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1898-04-15

To Cure % Cold in One Day
Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets
All druggists refund the money II iE
fails to cure. DC 1910
Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1898-04-15
Az Intsre.tinx Meeting.

An Intsresttnk Meeting.
What did you discuss at the club
today"
Nothing. We just talked. "-Har-
per's Bazaar.
Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1898-04-15
Seed Potatoes.

l have twelve different varieties of
firstclass seed patatoes for sale. All
r guaranteed pure and true to name.
Call at Co operative store.
Sc e. A. PALMER.
Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1898-04-15

No-To-Bac for Fifty Cents.
Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1898-04-15

Formalin kills s,nut.in oats
at Grecne's.
Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1898-04-15
Notice.
Girl Wanted
Girl Wanted.

Girl wanted to 90 homework.
Apply to Mrs. s. l.. Wlneman.