Devils Lake inter-ocean., 1903-10-23

lies Of American life. It's one eter-
nal hustle and rustic.
One continual rush to beat the
speed Of someone else. We invent
armor plate 80 thick that It can not be
penetrated, and then We invent gun
that will send q ball through it as
easy as it would through the single
tax stuff printed in the Grand Forks
One man does something
and another breaks his neck to do
something better. So it goes. We
are on the hustle all the time Got
into it years ago and it has become a
second nature. The fellow who waits
for something to turn up usually gets
the hearse.
W.
We don't believe in encouraging
boys to fight, far from it. But we
saw a case the other day where first
class licking would have done boy
about forty dollars worth of good. A
crowd of boys were returning from
school and one Of them was kicking,
cutting and maltreating another one
much smaller than himself, Of course
He wasn't brave boy, hewassa cow
ardly bulley. A brave boy would try
TO lick one three times his size if he
were right. A bully would pick on
one smaller than himself That's the
difference. We would like to jerk
about fourteen kinks in the back of
the neck of bully and let him know
what it takes to be man.
**
We once thought the government
owned the post Office, but have re.
Gently discovered tnat we were mis-
taken as we have been in many others
We saw the fellow the other day who
did own it, at least he acted as though
he did. He was getting mis- mail
the other morning at the time wnen
business people are ins hurry
this thing was dude-and he stood at
his, box and took out, ono at time
five letters and postal cards whic" he
read while standing at the box, thus
keeping haR dozen people waiting
on his, pleasure A business man
wouM not have done that. but we
suppose this dude had not received any
mail for haEf year and was anxious
to show the PUBLIC how important he
was. He showed
"I wender who will be the mex
| presiderts said gentleman th'
other night. He. hsGt paid up % sub
scription and patted' US on the bacl
and said the pager was the best he
evsr saw-though. we knew that be
fore-so that we were in that franz
of mind that the hard shell baptist
call receptive: That query is easy t
answer. The ere is but ore indivRtua
who can defeat Mn Roosevelt, andSH
is not a Democrat There wiEh b
some interesting; Things in the mex
campaign bssides> the, Democrats am
the dollars. But out of the fun tn
man who busted! bnonehos in Next
Dakota for a, past ime will do til
same thing to- the Democr attic muEs.,
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The Kerne4sman; Of the Fargo FoTuu
will be mad again-he always was
Jealous of our good looks-but TIL
time he wilH probably have cau
centrated attack Of intellectual bilou
collie. We inspired poem the otRf
day. Good, too. That is, the poasz
Want to readait3: Well, here it is::
When the shadows OF Sunlight y
silent lies;
( And a hush through the noisy rga4
" floats,
Is Then even the. EDITORS standing bw
= With mseAyred; air suppressing
70 sigh,
o1 For Gath's4 writing "Knockabo
Notes" s"'
: = His fountain' pen giddes DER the on
white page
And creates sarcastic flash;
And 'ristoerats of this whirling ago
w. Along with the men who earn "
"a wage;
~ To the public arS' brought with a, ds
an His felt hat pushed back from L
en cut brow,
we His eyes with mean light aaame