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Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1903-01-30
HOW ERM1NEs ARE CAPTURED.
b. the TFapDer to Saws the
Eur from Harm.

Perfect fur, of the delicate ermine at
least, would be marred by the ordinary
snare, 80 the trapper devises az cum
ming a death for the ermine as the
ermine devises when it darts up
through the snow with it's spear teeth
clutched in the throat of a poor rabbit,
writes Agnes C.. Laut, in Leslie's Month
~. Semaring his hunting knife with
grease, he lays it across the track. The
little ermine comes trotting in dots and
dashes and gallops and dives to the
knife. That greasy smell of meat it
knows, but that frost-silvered bit Of
steel is something new. The knife is
frosted like ice. Ice, the ermine has
licked, so he ticks the knife. But alas
for the resemblance between ice AMI
steel! Ice turns to water under the
warm tongue; steel turns to fire that
blisters and holds the foolish little
stoat by his inquisitive tongue, a hope
less prisoner till the trapper ONE
And, lest marauding wolverine or lynx
should come first and gobble up price
less ermine, the trapper comes soon.
And that is the end for the ermine.
Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1903-01-30
MISFORTUNE OF AN HE1REss,
The OWnsF of Arran Isle Missss Duoal
Title Dssauss She Was Not
BoFn . BOY,

The recent visit of King Edward to
the Island OF. Arran, on the coast of
Scotland, recalls the extraordinary
luck of the present duke of Hamilton,
and the misfortune of the owner of
Arran in not being born q boy, OBJ
serves the Chicago Record-Herald. The
present duke succeeded to the title in
the most roundabout way. He il de-
scended from the fourth duke, and his
line branched on in 1742 when Lord
Anne Hamilton (who had been named
after Queen Anne) married. The
senior branch of the Hamiltons from
the fifth to the twelfth dukes, after
reigning 17s years, Lecame extinct in
the male line, leaving plain Alfred
Douglas Hamilton the dukedom. The
late duke, whose mother was q
princess Of laden, and whose sister be-
came princess Of Monaco, left an only
daughter, who is now IS. She owns
almost the whole of Arran, which is
one of tie most beautiful spots in the
United Kingdom and has not become
vulgarizeo NY holiday makers.
Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1903-01-30
FRIEND TO NEWSPAPER MEN,
Pomona Favors fron Kin9
Edward.

No monarch, according to London
m. A. p" has shown a warmer appre-
citation of newspaper power and news
paper men than King Edward. There
are quite a number of the latter who
can boast of his personal friendship.
and are able to show trinkets which
he has given them. as souvenirs. Sew
eral, indeed, belong to his immediate
circle, notable'S Sir BILLY" Russell, the
veteran war correspondent of the
Times, who was once attached to his
suite as honorary private secretary.
and has still, l believe, the right to
wear the household button when in
court dress. King Edward, until the
time of his accession to the throne.
was in the habit of paying an annual
visit to Sir Edward, Lawson. the editor
and proprietor of the London Daily
Telegraph, as a sort of recognition for
the support which that paper had
given to his own and Queen Alexan-
dria's charitable enterprises. At least
two dozen newspaper editors were
knighted by Queen Victoria at the sup-
gestlon OF the king, several newspaper
proprietors have received baronetcies,
and one, Lord Glenesk, has received a
peerage.
Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1903-01-30
TRADING IN FURs TO-DAY.
Some Interesting Particulars Of aAe
Business In the Hudson
Bay Country.

First of all, when an Indian arrives
to trade at a Hudson bay post, then,
furs in the. pack must be sorted, sill
yer fox worth $500 separated from
fox and blue and white worth
from ten dollars down, according to
quality, and from common red fox,
worth less. Twenty years ago. says an
article on Hudson Bay company, in
Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly, it was
no unusual thing for the Hudson Bay
company to send to England yearly 10,-
600 cross fox skins, 1000 blue, 100000
red, half adozen silver. Few wolf skins
are in the trapper's pack, unless par
ticularly fine specimens of brown arc
tic and white arctic, bought as a GU
riosity, and not for value as; skins.
Against the wolf the trapper wages
war as against a pest that destroys
other game, and not for its skin. Next
to muskrat, the most plentiful fur will
be that of the rabbit or varying hare.
Buffalo was once the staple of the hunt
er. What the buffalo was, the white
rabbit is to-day. From it the Indian
gets clothing, tepee covers, blankets,
thongs, food. From it, the white man
who is a manufacturer of furs gets
gray fox and %chinchilla, and seal in
imitation. Except one year in seven,
when a rabbit plague spares the land
by cutting down their prolific numbers,
the varying hare is plentiful enough to
sustain the Indian. +,
Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1903-01-30
MEMORIAL BELL FOR AUTHOR.
Maine Pastor Who Wrote Msnsrsbls
Limos Remembered in .
Unique Manner.

ITO live in hearts we leave behind is
not to die" said the poet most truly.
1t is an immortality which comes in
larger measure to but a chosen few.
One of these lives in the heart of every
school boy who has declaimedfrom the
rostrum on Friday afternoon the stir
ring words Of "Spartacus." I
. He may not know whose brain IA
thered the lines he is making embryot-
ic oratory out of, but the author lives
on, nevertheless. The late Rev. Elijah
Kellogg, for so years pastor of the Con-
%gregational church in Hauswell, Me-,
was the writer of those oft spoken
verses, says the New York Herald.
In recognition of his writings, as
we'll as his long %pastorate, a memorial
bell to his memory has been recently
hung in the belfry of the house of wor-
ship whose pulpit he filled so long with
his kindly presence. His ministry ex-
tended over a wide field in the pas
torate along the shore of Casco Bay,
and many out on the deep, as well as
those safe in the harbor of refuge. will
near the far sounding deep tones of
the new bell and glow with remem-
brance of a good man gone to a we'll
earned rest from his labors.
Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1903-01-30
PLAIN ENGLISH WANTED.
YouA1 Medical Student Ob1eeted ~
the Use OF foreign Terms
In His,

There's a physician in my town."
said q Cincinnati Drummer to a re-
porter for the New York Herald, who.
has a o whom he is instructinR in
the rudiments of the profession, but
just at present the young fellow is
thinking of a great many things not
down in the books. He has a lot of
rapid young companions Of the slangy
sort, and he is master of them all. In
deed, his language is at times so ut
terly modern as to be almost unintel-
ligible to the old-fashioned people who
learned their language out of Web
ster's dictionary. The other day a
patient was brought into the doctors
Office and the son happened to be pres
ent.
"'The man is suffering from mania
a potu,' said the doctor after a brief
examination.
"'What was that?' inquired the son,
with an evident effort to catch the
meaning.
mania a potu-delirium tremens,
repeated the doctor.
"'Oh,' commented the youngster,
you mean the Jim jams, the d. It's, the
d%elirious trimmings, the gotemagins,
do you? suppose I'll get next to this
medical racket before the finish, but
until I do l wish you would talk plain
English for my benefit, dad"
Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1903-01-30
OF ABATTo1R SHEEP.
Trained "Pets' That, Lead TAsir Un.
s~usDesting Companions to
! the Slaughter.

Out at the abattoir the pets" among
the sheep may be distinguished by
their superior height and shapeliness
and by the intelligence of their express
sion. The pets are murderers, says the
Philadelphia Record. In the other
pens sheep come and go by thousands
to the slaughter, but the pets remain.
They are trained to lead their fellows
to death, and they do this work well,
for they have by reason of their
strength, intelligence and beauty a
great influence. When the butchers Of
the abbatoir wish to slaughter1a flock
of sheep word is passed to the pets,
and they indifferently, calmly saunter
in among the flock, gain their conf
dence and esteem and then take thei,
places at the head and lead them to the
slaughter house. The bloodstained and
murdecous pets have more than n
unsheeplike quality. They eat pretzels
and pie and drink beer.
Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1903-01-30
AMERICAN ARIsToCRAcY,
"Oil Kings" money Kings" and 9th
e. Trade MOnnrchs Who Are
Richer Than Royahy. IT,

The few enormously wealthy Amer
lea families of which the head en-
joys an assured annual income of
than $1,000 900 may be regard
ed as representing in the American
republic what the royalties repre-
sent in England, says Ainslee's Maya
zine. Popular phraseology, indeed,
gives them, with unconscious fitness,
quasi-r0yal titles in styling them
"oil kings" money kings" and min
ing kings" Most of them live as few
real kings can afford to live, and
they receive from their immediate en-
tourage something of the obsequious
Difference which in monarchial lands
is given to those who are of the row.
al blood. Coming down grade, we
have the somewhat larger group of
those whose incomes range from ST.
100000 down to $1,000 900. These indi-
v1duals, as a class, r equivalent of
the British peerage-the 5000, 900
magnate having, let us say, the rela-
tive rank of a duke, while the others
represent a descending scale of dig
nifty and are respectively the equals
OF marquises, earls, viscounts and
barons. Then come what we NAV
style in British Technology the "up-
per middle classes"-persons with
incomes ranging from 100000 to
$780, 1000. Social classification ends
with the final group of families whom
we may collectively describe as the
flower middle classes" having in
of not more than $4,000 and
not less than $4,000.
Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1903-01-30
TO PRESERVE OUR FORESTS,
ClubwoAsn OF Many states Are In
tsFsstiAg Themselves in the work
Of Saving the Trees.

Clubwomen + working in many
states for forest preservation. They
have taken an active part in the agita-
ton in Pennsylvania, which has result
ed in the preservation of 100000 acres
of forest lands, placing that state at
the head of all in this matter. The
Woman's club at Wilkesbarre has been
especially interested, securing the ap-
pointment of a forester to care for for
ests in the vicinity.
The Maine federation has a commit
tee on forest preservation. Maryland
and Delaware are trying to save their
e~vergreens, of which the states are be-.
ing denuded at Christmas time. Now
Jersey wants to raise a fund of 500. 600
for forestry parks along the palisades.
ClubwQmen of Wisconsin have planted
hundreds of trees during the last few
years. Minnesota women, says the De-
troit Free Press, have labored unceas-
ingly to secure q permanent forest
reservation st the headwaters of the
Mississippi. :
Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1903-01-30
cosTL1EsT DRINK ON RECORD.
one mat Queer Victoria Took when
she Conferred the Title of Duke
On the Earl Of Fife.

What is probably the costliest drink
on record, cost its recipient s ,75o, says
the Philadelphia Press.
When the earl of Fife-as he va,
then-became the husband of Princes.
Louise of Wales, Queen Victoria, at the
wedding breakfast which followed the
happy ceremony, drank to the "heaIth
OF the duke Of Fife"
The drink cost the semi-roval bride
groom the amount of his letter, patant
confirming the dukedom.
Letters patent accompany the con
ferring of a title on m individual.
They take the form of a royal man.
damus, and the issuing of the doom
ments is a costly matter, which has to
be borne by the ennobled; s5oois prac-
tically the amount of the fee a new
knight has to pay for the letter, nat
ent conveying the royal authority. A
baronet's liabilities are about the
same.
When a "Mr." OF "sir" i, advised
of the royal intention to elevate either
to the. dignity of baron, the letters
patent conveying the royal authority
carries with it a fee of $3.50; of a viz.
count, $1,000, an earl, s1,25o, a marquis.
$1,s0o and a duke, $1,750.
Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1903-01-30
The New Field Gun.

It has been decided by Secretary
Root that the new field gun to be
supplied to the artillery of the army
will be a combination of the best
points of the field guns designed by
Herr Erhardt, the German expert.
and Capt Wheeler, of the ordnance
department. The chief feature of the
Erhardt gun which will be i%ncorpo-
rated in the new gun to be manufac-
tured is the breech mechanism. The
chief distinguishing characteristic of
the new gun from the old is the three
foot long recoil. This prevents the
kicking of the gun carriage from it's
original position when the gun il
fred.
Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1903-01-30
OLDEST OF ALL FADs.
Lovers Of the Day seek to Haye rAsar
Pictures ON Their SweeA.
hearts Shoes,

It is said that the fashionable girl
of the present day carries the picture
Of the young man she loves in her shoa,
and the secret of her heart may, there
fore, be learned by looking at her feet.
There is nothing occult about it. Hyp-
notism, mental telepathy and things of
that sort are not concerned. If the girl
is up to date, all you have to dois to
look at her feet, for there you will see
the picture of the happy man, says the
Chicago Chronicle.
She wears it in the buckle other slip
per, so that the best time to learn the
truth is when she is at a dance. At a
function of the kind in Wissahickon re-
Gently a half-dozen of the girls had
their sweethearts at their feet, which,
according to amatory tradition, il
right and proper.
When the miniature fad originated
the modish girls were pleased to wear
the counterfeit presentmentsof their
courtiers at their necks. Then they
moved to the belt buckle, but it is the
prerogative of woman to change her
mind, and man is once more lowered.
Already the new fancy is gaining sup
porters, and many slipper miniatures
are being made with the portraits of
matinee idols" This is for the &C.
commodation of those girls who have
not yet succeeded in finding a man TO
admire at close ranee
Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1903-01-30
WILL v LACK COAL
There IL Enough In the Mlass OF the
Unitsd States to supply Us
Indefinitely,

The basis of all iron and steel making
is reliable coking coal and iron ores
suited to the Bessemer OF the basic
process of producing steel. The Con-
nellsville district in western Pennsyl-
vania carries the largest known seam
(nlne feet) of high grade coking coal.
But the district is distinctly limited,
and at present rate of mining will be
exhausted within a generation. Ma
ture, however, was lavish in providing
reserves, The developments of the
past ten years among the vast bitumi-
nous coal regions Of West Virginia,
southwestern Virginia, southeastern
kentucky and eastern Tennessee. have
revealed deposits of high-grade cox
ing coal that would seem to he annie
to supply the blast furnaces of the
world for centuries to come. It is only
a question of building railroads, open
ing mines and constructing coke ovens.
Not all good bituminous coal will make
coke. Indeed, in all the grea coal
fields of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois. Mis-
souri, and important coal sections of
tennessee and Kentucky, there has not
been found an acre of coking coal.
Draw a circle around the Connellsville
section in Pennsylvania, including the
so-called Mountain" operations ad-
Jacent on the east; another around the
section where Virginia, West Virginia,
kentucky and Tennessee meet an
other around the Warrior coal fields
IN Alabama, and a fourth around a
newly-developed district in Colorado
and Utah and you have all the known
sources of fuel supply for iron and
steel making in the United States.
1t is true that anthracite coal is still
used in connection with coke in the
past furnaces of eastern Pennsylvania.
put 1t is a small and diminishing factor
Inc circles above indicated, however
deposits SO reliable and So
extensive that a rate of consumption
many times greater than the present
could go on for generation. without
raising the first question of exhaus-
ton.
Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1903-01-30
N CLEVER REPLY.
~s'ofs courteous of the same to Bail.
IL Upsets h Dignity Of q
Row of Judges.

Recently, during the hearing OF a
charge of felony. a young man was
called to give evidence on behalf of
accused, and was about to be sworn.
when the inspector informed their
lordships that the witness had dis
obeyed the order for witnesses to
leave the court.
The bench were almost inclined to
refuse his evidence in consequence, but
the witness, in the most innocent man
ner, caused a burst of laughter which
even the dignity of a whole row of
judges was not proof against, and the
position was saved.
The Inspector, addressing the bench
said: I'm order that there should he M
mistake, 1 distinctly said: All Wit
nesses on both sides must leave the
court until they are Called" and then
turning to the witness, he said: "You
must have heard the order"
YES" at once responded the witness.
according to the Detroit News-Trib-
une, II did; but I I'm not a witness ON
both sides!"
Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1903-01-30
AN ABBREVIATED sNowsToRn
blind Man in the Play objected to
Hsmmers and Other Hardware
Among the Flakes.

Mechanical devices are now made
wonderfully real on the STAGE said
the old stock actor, according to the
Philadelphia Record. ut hasn't been
so many years ago since even the
simple device of depicting a snow,
storm was regarded an achievement.
l remember on one occasion I was
out with a ten, twent and thirt' COM
pany playing repertoire, and in one
melodrama-I don't even now recall
the name, for it was a pirated play
~ took the part of an old man
whose daughter, the heroine, had
been abducted. I was supposed to be
blind, and my strong scene was the
third act, when I went out into a
snowstorm in search of my daughter.
She was lying in a drift, and as 1
hobbled across the stage ! kept cry
ing: Me che-ild! where is me
che-ild?' Well, it was early in the
season, and the play was the first at
traction at that theater. The scene
painters had been at work, and had
dropped several paint brushes, ham
mers and other articles into the
sheet that held the snowstorm. AS
the stage hands in the flies shook
the sheets to make the snow come
out a couple of hammers came down
and just missed me by an inch. 1
was blind, and didn't dare to look
up, but when a monkey wrench Just
grazed my temple l had presence Of
mind enough to yell: See Nyonder
moon! The storm is overt. The
stage hands took their cue and let
up on me, and the audience never
stopped to question how a blind man
could see Wonder moon"
Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1903-01-30
SEEING FOOTBALL, BY PROXY.
DliHd nathvsiast In En~,.,a who
Never Misses = Match Whsa
He Oan Get There.

Blind since he was four years old, a
well-known Blackburn (England) man
10 a self-taught musician, playing the
piano and other instruments by ear and
earning his living by that accomplish
ment. Many blind people, however, are
musicians, and that is not the curious
thing about Mike, says Golden Penny.
His penchant is not only for music,
but for football. If you ask him on
a Saturday night where he has been
In the afternoon, he will invariably tell
you he has been to "see" a football
match. A blind man going to see a
football match-Nonsense! But it is
not nonsense. Mike is SO fond of foot
ball-especially of his own pet team,
the Blackburn Rovers-that he never
misses a match if he can possibly help
it in the season, frequently travelling
with the team to matches out of town
not for the purpose of playing music
for coppers, as some may suppose; no,
ne goes purely and simply to "see the
game"
True, he sees it by proxy. he stands
among the crowd, and as the shouts go
up and the remarks and criticisms of
those about him are expressed, he can
follow the game as keenly as any man,
and when time is called he will tell
you more about the details of the
match than anyone else. Mike is
proud of the fact that he has scarcely
missed seeing a match on a Saturday
afternoon for thu 10 ct % oarS-to saw
nothing of extra games on other days.
Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1903-01-30
USE COACHES.
x4asge Co%nveyancss for Travelling In
South Africa Made In the
United States.

I The coaches used in South Africa are
built in the United States-at Concord.
Most Of them hold 12 people inside in
rows Of three, six people facing and,six
back to the mules, says Lippincott's
Magazine. By experience we learned
that the two corner seats back to the
mules are most agreeable. Luggage
on these Journeys is a consideration,
az it is charged for at the rate of a
shilling q pound, but each passenger
may take a rug-or BLANKET" as they
are always called-and a small basket
of food. The great object is to get az
much food as possible into a small
space, for when we travelled we could
only be sure of two meals-one break
fast and n dinner-during the three
days and nights of continuous travel
ing.
We made inquiries about the out
side places, thinking they might be
preferable; but some fellow-passen-
gers, who were old: hands at such
travelling, explained that when the
coach upset the outside passengers
were those to suffer; those inside come
off, as a rule, with a few bruises, the
Others getting broken arms and the
like; and this unbalanced our desire
for the open air. Not that one suffer-
ed from want of air, for the coach has
no windows at all; glass would not
stand the jolting for an hour. There
is a t%arpaulin that one may unroll and
H mil down ovor %ho xrso10xuc ryh on
the rain comes I'm i~ntolerably. The sur
ont must bear, for il the tarpeulin is
down it is too insufferably hot.
Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1903-01-30
LOST ARTICLES IN HOTELS.
o~Afelessnes and Haste on the Part
OF Guests Responsible fox Loss
of Many BELONGINGS. A.

One OF the foremost hotel manager.
OF this city, said lately that it was i'm
possible to restrict a large nronor
ton of the loss of portable articles in
hotels, reports the New York Her
aid.
This loss is not SO much due to theft
as TO carelessssness and hurry on the
part of maids and men and women.
who carry off the teaspoons they have
been using in their rooms, pack up the
hotel towels by mistake and break a
good deal that is only missed when an
inventory is, taken. This manager said
that a large hotel collects napkins.
spoons and towels stamped with the
names of almost all the other large
hotels in the country and, of names in
Europe. The spoon packed away with
the child's medicine by a maid in Paris
il, perhaps, next brought to light in
a New York hotel, where it is sent
down to the kitchen when no LONGER
needed.
Thus these little but costly things
travel about and defy safekeeping.
There is a great deal of theft, of
course. Servant women wrap table
cloths and sheets around their per-
sons, walters pocket forks, spoons,
knives and napkins, and bartenders
and their helpers carry off bottles of
liquors. So far as possible large ho-
tells board and house their help, be-
cause that makes it more difficult for
theft to be practiced.