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Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1900-10-26

happier than the usual run of
editors.
Attorney Adamson is having an
Office fixed up in the Stade block.
If you want cream in your coffee
buy Lake View Creamery milk.
Gardiner Moore, of St. Paul was
in town a few days this week.
Don't forget to register Tuesday
it will be your last chance.
M. A. Doheny has moved into
his new residence on 9Th street.
j. E. Watt went west Thursday
morning to look after the trade.
John Daeley returned from
Europe on the flyer Sunday night.
City Attorney Townsend re-
turned Monday from Grand Forks.
! See John w. Maher before max
ing arrangements for final proof or
farm loans.
Gene Stoeser, of GRAND Harbor
was a visitor in town over We'd
nesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. D.. Millar, of
Grand Harbor, were visiting in the
city Monday.
Mrs. DR.. Moeller, of Churchs
Ferry, was shopping in the city
Wednesday evening.
Frank Rutten, wife and mother.
of Ontario township, we're among
the Thursday visitors.
Make your final proofs or farm
loans with John w. Maher, U. S
commissioner.
Miss Myrtle Walker, who has
been so i'll with typhoid fever, is
reported to be somewhat better.
w. H. Hill and George Winney,
prominent Great Northern railway
officials, were in town;W Wednesday
Farm loans, see Geo. w. Gets &
Co., no commissions, money ready
low rate of interest.
j. O.. Mark, another prosperous
farmer, spent Thursday in the city
looking after business interests
j. G. Brown, who has been with
the Free Press for some time past
is now with the Crazy Courier.
Now is the time to save money
on wall paper. All paper at cos
for next 80 days at w. w. Woods
shop. Phone 120 "a
Hon. D. E. Morgan has return.
ed from Baraboo, Wis, where he
has spent the past two weeks with
relatives and friends.
Gus. Utecht returned from
Sank Center, Mimi, Monday
evening, where he was called
by the serious illness of his father
who died after he arrived.
If you want to pay the balance
due on your crop contract for land
John w. Maher will loan you the
money with which to do so.
Clarence Hale is up from Grand
Forks in the interests of the
Equitable Life Insurance COM
pany and also to look into the
goose question.
The county commissioners did
a good stroke of business when
they hired a janitor for the court
house. Nick Schmaltz has made
the inside look like new, and the
lawn is always neat and clean.
Jake Wolf was in town Thurs
day buying supplies for his thresh.
ing crew. Jake has been thresh.
ing a long time with a 42-7O sepa.
rator and says he still has 500 acres
Of flax to thresh.
In this weeks issue of the Inter.
Ocean, we present to our readers q
short sketch of some Of the leading
candidates for Office on the Repub.
lican ticket and in some instances a
half tone engraving of the subject,
John Beck was arrested Sunday
charged with keeping nuisance
in violation of a city ordinance.
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Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1900-10-26

Land Office at Grand Forks. y. D., August 80.
1900. Notice is h hereby given that the following
named settler has filed notice of his intention
to make communication final proof in support of
his claim and that said proof will be made be-
District of North Dakota, at residence of n. f.
Birtch. Ramsey Co. n. OAK. or Dec. 3rd, 1900,
viz: WILLIAM DENTON.
q f. No. 1852. for the EI OF wv and lots /
and 2 of Sec. Is. Twp. 15s, r. SO.
He names the following witnesses to prove
his continuousr residence upon and cultivation
long, of Banner. n. D., !. n. Walker, Devils
Lake, \. D., Fred Walker. Klein. n. D.
1888 E. H. KENT. Register.
Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1900-10-26

Public Library.
EHE Library is open to the public every We'd
nesday evening and Saturday afternoon. Al
the months of January and February.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1900-03-31
BITS OF FEMININITY.
Recent Additions to My Lady's Ward
robe Are Fanciful and
Pretty.

in the transparent yokes of the new
est gowns there is no apparent Shout
der seam.
Gray feather boas and muffs are a
late winter feature of the Paris mode.
Palm leaves bid fair to rival the ever
popular polka dot for %foulards, India
silks and challies.
Black and silver is a coming popular
combination.
Separate belts are no longer good
form. as everything now savors of the
~princesse effect.
Red tulle. spangled with red pail
lettes. is likely to become exceedingly
popular for e%vening frocks.
\ lattice work of jets, beads or
Jewels. which. unlined, is used to cover
arms and shoulders, is a late novelty
for waists for the theater or semi
formal occasions.
"Mitten sleeves" done in fine shirred
chiffon will be used to the exclusion OF
gloves this coming season, it is prom.
ised.-Detroit Free Press.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1900-03-31
A "REMINISCENCES.
How q School Girl Obtained the
Signature of General
LawtOn.

'More than ten years ago, when jour-
neying east from California" said a
lady now living in Detroit, "even
though ouly two days on the way, our
party became weary and welcomed
every addition to the little company
in the Pullman, though they came in
at long intervals. When We reached
the station, Fort Wingate, Ariz., the
school girl was distinctly disappointed
that nothing resembling a fort was
in sight, and not a blue coat visible
from the a platform.
ION reentering the car, however, we
found thai a new arrival, Enthusiastically
a soldier. had appropriated the seat
across the aisle from us. 1t was not
long before he was making friends
with Curly-iocks, the three-year-old
pet of the party, and of course that
soon served as an introduction to her
mamma, and we learned that this
modest, Drowned soldier was on his
way to Kansas City to attend the we'd
ding of Il soldier friend. He proved
a most entertaining companion, and
as Curly-locks' mamma in her ingeni-
Gus way would lead him into speaking
of some of his experiences, the school
girl was delighted to realize that she
was listening to a genuine soldier. Hav-
ing but recently met Gen. Miles at a
social function in Los Angeles, where
he was considerable of a "lion," she
asked the soldier, whose name we had
not learned, if he had ever seen the
general. With a twinkle in his eye,
he admitted having seen him, and then
with the schoolgirl and Curly-locks'
mamma as delighted auditors, he told
in a Delightfully."- diffident manner, and
all too briefly how, under Gen. Miles
| orders, he was one of the men who
went after COMMUNICATING us for
the first time the correct pronuncia-
| ton of hat name.
After the fashion of travellers, as
the party neared Kansas City, where
all could separate, an exchange of Wis
iting cards was made. with promises
to renew the acquaintance so pleas
antly begun. The schoolgirl protest
ing that che might lose a card, but
not the ]precocious journal she had kept
of her trip, asked the soldier to write
| his name in that small book. and to-
day among her treasures, with a tiny
silk flag beneath it-her tribute to the
hero-is the autograph. Henry \. Law
ton, L. S. A."-Detroit Free Press.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1900-03-31
WHERE: GENIUS THRivEs.

He started to write with q holder of red
And a point that surely was gold,
And his paper was purple and lineless in
stead
OF the foolscap paper Of old;
And his desk was a treasure, from silver
stamp case
To a pearl-laid paper-knife blade
And the foot of his lamp was a bronze
lions face,
While a dragon encircled the shade.
He started to write. but he halted right
there;
He courted the muses. in vain.
His fingers plowed burrows through his
poetic hair
And a mountain seemed weighing his
brain.
Desperate. indeed. he smote the inkstand
And kicked the desk like a mule;
He swore that display had bridled his hand
And luxury made him a fool.
So he picked up his hat and went with a
leap
To the shop hat trades for your dime,
And he bought a cent pen and a paper pad
cheap,
To scribble his meter and rhyme;
Then up in a garnet, minus collar and coat
He started the tide to
And there on a table he wrote and he
wrote,
He wrote, and he really wrote sense.
Chicago Daily News.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1900-03-31
India's Population.

The population of India is about four
times that of the United States, while
the latter has about double the area OF
the former. The bulk Of the people are
employed in agriculture. Each man
rents, generally, but a few acres. There
are, of course. occasional large planta-
tions run by a rich man or rajah, but
these are exceptional. The ancient
pillow, costing perhaps so or IS cents.
pulled by oxen, is used. Few imple-
ments are employed. The mamooties
"a kind Of mattock, more like q car
penter's adj, with a wider blade-are
universally used for all manner OF
work in the ground. Natives win not
use the wheelbarrow or the shovel.
Women carry dirt, mortar, brick and In
fact everything in baskets ON their
heads.-N. Y. SUN.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1900-03-31

Il took a good share of my money
and valuables end piled hem in lit.
tie heap on the floor. Then Tim fol-
lowed my example, under express or.
ders from the voice and trying hard
to make a few one-dollar bills look
like a big roll. But all the time / kept
thinking that there was something
odd about the situation, though ]
couldn't tell what it was. On suck
occasions a man doesn't think with
hat brilliancy that the uninitiated
might expect. But the difficulty pre-
scented itself after awhile.
"'Tom,' said l, under my breath,
this game looks queer. Why doesn't
one of them search us?'
"'Sh-h-h!' said Tom; and l knew
he was thinking of the same thing.
snow, gents resumed the first
| voice, when Tom had unloaded, there
| amt room for all of us here. Being
as me and my friends were here first,
we'll have to ask you w to get off
the train. Now, hurry. please; jump
straight out, and you probably won't
get hurt
1--WE were running at IS miles an
hour, so, of course. a jump was almost
certain death. But Tom was as cool
as ever. He muttered to me to keep
still and wait, and then he said
| aloud:
What will you do if we refuse"
Don't get gay, now answered the
voice. IN shoot. and you know it
xviii Bill shoot, too?' asked Tom,
carelessly.
- will that came Bills voice from
the front end of the car.
land Jim?'
"'You bet!' said the other voice up
forward.
81 thought So said Tom under his
breath. Then he stretched out his
hand and caught mine like a wise as
though in a silent farewell.
".Do as l tell you. now!' he whis-
pered, and don't fail for your life.
Walk up to the edge of the patch
of light as though you were
going to jump. When 1 pull your
arm dive into the dark end of the car,
fiat on the floor. Do you hear? Then
roll as far as you can; anywhere, but
keep still
":AIl right, my friend he contin-
ued aloud, addressing the voice again.
You've got the drop on us; but let
me tell you this. distinctly: We've
both kept our guns, and if you didn't
have your friends with you we'd shoot
this game to a finish Then before
any of them could speak in reply he
said to me: 'Good-by, old man:
wish you luck At the same instant
he stepped to the edge of the light
space and frightened his grip on my
hand.
Now he said, be sure and roll,
and keep still
with that he gave me a pull that
sent me sprawling to the floor sew
eral feet beyond the doorway. He
struck the floor near me almost at
the same moment. and we both rolled
in opposite directions.
strange to say, no pistol shot fol-
lowed us-at least 1 hadn't heard any
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1900-03-31

so | lay there and waited further de-
you I've experienced ~pleasanter SEN
sations than those of the next five
minutes when | lay there wondering
what part of my body the bullets were
going to strike and from which direc-
ton to expect them. Finally | couldn't
stand it any longer. so l began to
crawl in the direction Tom had taken.
keep quiet said Tom, when |
had reached him. 4 want to hear
what he is doing
but his friends 1 whispered.
scarcely moving my lips. we must
be close to them
Dan said Tom. there's only one
of him. that's plain. And further, ev-
erything goes ito show that he is not
armed. Just keep quiet and wait
I'VE lay there for perhaps half an
hour, but there wasn't a sound from
the other end of the car. | knew that
| Tom had planned a way out of it, but
his next move surprised me. The
train had just begun to slow for our
station when he jumped to his feet
and cried out:
Now, my friend. we will trouble
| YOU to come out of that and get off
this train. Hurry, now. you're Gov
| cred
Then there was a scraping and a
| stumbling from the darkness. and the
voice. now changed to a pleading
| whine. said: Don't shoot. gents: I'm
| coming right out And he did: and
| there never was a sneaker looking
scoundrel dropped off n freight train.
"Now. that's all there is to that
| story" concluded the shoe drummer.
..but it goes to show that time and
money saved by beating ones way
| NAV sometimes be false economy. But
if, nevertheless. you should ever be
persuaded to try it. remember one
thing: Beware of the box car with
the partly opened door; it's almost
| sure to be inhabited."-N. Y. Sun.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1900-03-31
A c GOOD
Their Seats in Public Convey
anceS to Ladies'.

Nine ous of ten of the boys and young
men who travel up and down the ele-
waited roads of New York are absolutely
void of good manners as are a lot of
wild Indians-probably more so. 1t
is SO seldom that one of these will get
up and give a lady a seat that when
it does occur the event creates sur
prise.
Scores. yes hundreds of times, have
I seen Ole and middle-aged women
hang on to 4 strap mile after mile.
while some unlocked whelp of a boy
has sat in front of her in stolid indif-
ference. Nor were these always loaf
ers or boys going to their work-fully
as often the selfish fellow will be 4
well-dressed schoolboy or n whose
manners otherwise will show a de-
cent bringing up and good manners
at home. They don't care, that's all.
They have been taught it by somebody.
Time and again l have seen a prether
sit conplacently with a hakitIrown
boy or girl beside her while other wom-
en- stood up. Did she care? Did she
suggest to the boy hat he should arise
and give his seat to some poor old
woman? Not a bit of it. She had paid
for that seat and meant to keep it N
the family. In such cases / have always
hoped that she might be clinging to
a strap the next time, while rome
other mothers darling kicked his feet
against her dress and stared at her
in comp.acent s~elfishness.
There is probably not a city in Amer
lea that can compare with New York
for the number of street q hogs "a
the square foot. This don't mean the
boys only. oy q long sbot-Cleveland
Plain Dealer.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1900-03-31
walnut and Celery salad.

Mix we'll together two cupfuls Of
diced celery. one cupful of English
walnut meats (blanched) and one cup
full O; mayonnaise dressing. Form nice
lettuce leaves into little cups, fill with
celery and nut mixture, with a little of
the mayonnaise on top, and serve ON
individual plates. Or place a bed Of
lettuce leaves in a salad bowl. arrange
the salad in a low mound in the center,
put some mayonnaise on top. and gar
nish with slices of hard boiled egga-
Home Magazine.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1900-03-31
HUMOROUS

Il hear O'Flannaghan Il going to
prove an alibi at his trial" Whats
an alibi, Pat?" .'Shure. and it's being
in two places at once."-Fun.
Thorne-"Jaek Gl2G,.and says he has
sworn off borrowing money" Bramblc
HE had to. All his friends have sworn
off lending him money."-N. Y. Jour
nal.
She Had Him. wouldn't marry
the best man on earth" Clare IL
guess you wouldn't. He has promised
me he'll never marry again, even If l
should die."-Philadelphia Bulletin.
Little Johnny "Pa, our Sunday
School teacher says Enooh was trans
lated. l wonder what language he
was translated into?" Pa-"One of the
dead languages, 1 guess" Boston
Transcript.
Grinder-"What! asleepatyour desk.
sir? and work so pressing!" Meekly
Excuse me. sir; baby kept me awake
all night Grinder-"Then you should
have brought it with you to the office"
Brooklyn Eagle.
81 think" said the friend of the fam
lily, "that you ought to keep a watch
on your SON." impossible" declared
the disguised father. He'd exchange
it for a pawn ticket the first chance he
got."-Philadelphia Press.
Poor old Snubbins has had a hard
time of it. He has been sick for n year,
his baby died last week. and the furni-
ture man has called in his parlor suit.
He told me his story this morning. He
was sad. Snubbins was. and his story
touched me deeply" How much did
you say?'-Baltimore News.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1900-03-31
r0MMY's COMPOSITION.
Kot COmmOnly Under.
stood.

-
Dogs do not amount to much in this
world. The only things we get from
dogs are feas and sleepless nights.
There are SO many different kinds Of
dogs, 1 will not attempt to enumerate
them. However, I think most of the
dogs in this country, at least all that
I have seen, ere descendants
Scotch breed. At any rate, they are
always scratching themselves.
Writing about dogs puts me in mind
Of old Pat Lynch, the hod carrier.
One rainy day, not having anything
better to do, he remained at home and
sat in his little kitchen smoking his
pipe, while his better half exercised
herself at the washtub.
The old woman had been scrubbing
for fully an hour without a word being
spoken by either of them. when b
suddenly wheeled around and said
"Pat Lynch, do you know phwat breed
of dog yez do be putin me in moind
OF" mo, Katy" replied Pat, as he re-
moved his pipe from his mouth. unless
it do be a watch dog" ser watch dog!"
she repeated, with unconcealed con-
tempt, 'be hivins! no; yez do puts me
in moind of an Oirish setter"
A man will fight for his dog quicker
than he will for his own flesh and
blood. Bill Sniffen, who lives around
the CO. ner from our house, came in my
yard ore day with his dog. We were
having a fine time playing together,
when my dad came home and wanted to
know whose dog it was that trampled
down all his young garden truck. told
him it was Bill Sniffen's dog, for I could
see that dad was mad. Dad then turned
to Bill and said: Haven't I told you
not to come over here and play with my
boy? Now you get out of here with
your dog double-quick, or I'll turn you
over to the police" And with that, dad
took him by the arm and led him out
side of the gate. Dad nev liked Bills
father for a cent from the time Bills
father beat my dad when they were
both running for supervisor of the
county. Bill must have run all the way
home, for in about two minutes who
should come along but Bills father,
and he was as mad as a halter.
"What did you hit my dog for?" he
asked my dad. 81 didn't hit your dog"
replied dad, kind of quiet like, but I
was fully justified in hitting him."
Bills father spoke up real hot, and,
shaking his fist in my fathers face,
said: mo man is justified in hitting
another mans dog. If my boy does
wrong while in your yard, you can hit
him as much as you want to, but don't
hit my dog; for when you hit him you
hit me-" With that, Bills father start
ed for home with his head shaking az
if he had the palsy.
Dogs in general are very unreliable.
You can't place any dependence upon
them. You can teach a dog to do most
anything but talk; but when you want
to show him of before somebody to
whom you have been Dragging as to
what the dog is capable of doing, the
dog will make you out a darn liar every
time.-Harvey Brown, Jr., in Harlem
Life.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1900-03-31
NAPOLEON's FAMOUS REMARK
An American OHlcer DISGUISE Its
Bearing Upon the War in South
Africa.

passing entirely the merits of tn.
British-Boer war;" said a United States
artillery officer of high rank, land the
various valuable, and otherwise, indi-
vidual opinions of the different cor
respondents as to the warfare OF the
future 1 am most forcibly struck by
one substantial fact. 1t is this:
THAT, however may be radically
changed the tactics and methods of
conducting a battle on the field, the
great underlying principles of war are
still not only undisturbed, but accen-
tuated to a forceful degree by this con-
test, as were the great principles of
naval evolution in the Spanish-Amer-
lean war.
Nearly 100 years ago the greatest of
military masters, the immortal Napo-
leon. made his famous remark that
God was on the side of the general
with the heaviest a. .illery.' To-day We
paraphrase the axiom by substituting
'high-powered' for heavy Artillery
will decide the day in South Africa as
it did at Wagram and Austerlitz, and in
most of Napoleon's battles. An artil-
lery officer himself, he made this arm
the feature of his marvellous armies.
Mark my prophecy:
"Old Dom Paul and his advisers
must have cherished well Napoleon'r
words. for especial attention was given
to the secret Importation into the
Transvaalof great numbers of new and
improved high-powered guns. The ex-
ecution of these battalion destroying
weapons. and the consequent conster-
nation of the British. are already mat
tiers of history. while it is admitted
that the long-range naval guns alone
| saved Ladysmith from humiliation or
ca%pitulation. Why, at Modder river the
shrapnel shell of the Beers fused at
$500 yards. while those of the British
| fused at 400 yards. leaving a zone OF
nearly three-quarters of Il mile in
which the British were entirely at the
mercy of the Beers. before they could
even get in a position to unlimber and
fire. And some people have criticised
| the British for abandoning their guns!
1t is n wonder that the fragments OF
their flesh and bones could be gathered
together for burial.
"Americans are born artillerists. In
our various foreign wars and in our
| civil war. this fact has been as com
pletely demonstrated as hat we take
to handling small arms by instinct.
But we cannot afford to rest upon this
superiority of the man behind the gun
| the gun itself is now an intricate piece
| of breech mechanism of frightful life
destroying potency and startling pro
jectile penetrating and carrying ca
pacity.
"Would that Napoleon would come tc
life to see the transformation. Would
that he could go down to the Indian
Head proving grounds and witness tbs
test of armor VS.. ~projectile. And ther
would that he could go up to the cap
itol and give congress a short talk
about the need of big guns and plent.!
of trGined artillerists to man them
I think he would startle some of GU:
--Wasbinpton Star.