Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1903-11-20
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49, PERSONS AND THINGS ~
As Seen by Gath

The other evening M of the good
looking insurance men was playing
rubber-like ourselves-at the open
ing. And the conversation turned
upon marrying women who are the
proud owes Of large quantities of
money. In the curse of the CONVEX
satitn reference was made to a young
lady who was wealthy. "Ask her
for me-" gasped the insurance man at
once, as though the asking would be
all that would be Necessary to secure
the consent of a a sensible woman to
lake a life insurance man to keep
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TIN other day a gentleman showed
us in a clothing trade jo urnal two
cuts which illustrate the difference
between tn. way clothil.g is sold in
Alaska and in New YORK City. The
Alaskan scene repses sr led a snow GOV.
cred shed roof buil9 ,.ng n story high
with n window and me door, the
goods piled in 'eaps upos tho floor.
In New YorlL, che store had al the
accessories o. a modern city st2re
with electro lights, elevators, glass
show cases with marble trimmings.
and we'll dressed dudes for statesmen.
Such is the difference in life on the
frontier and in the city.
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A young lady was discussing the
habit SO many people have Of talking
about people the other day, and made
the suggestion that the trouble seemed
to be that those who spend so CHI
time and energy in s%landering others
usually live in glass houses and to
prevent giving opportunity to SANDER
about themselves, try to turn the pub
lie attention to others. It reminds us
of a negro who was %strenously deny
ing having stolen a chicken, while the
chicken itself was sticking it's head
through a lole in the top of his hat
where the darkey was carrying his
stolen goods. Slander is a SOFT of mud
fence erected by the slanderer behind
which he hides his faults.
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A lady called our attention to the
fact that we had to someextena !; MIS-
represented the Chimes in a local
which it was stated that these Gel
estia's never washed. went
through Chinatown in San Francisco
once" said she, ''and the gentleman
who was es .orting the. party and who
as 1oroughly familiar with the
erst ,ms of the race, told US that a
Chlnaman never came from his days
work without first taking a bath. -
Now that 8. one IN US. We never
knew the Cinnamon we're six DAYS
ahead Of the Americans. It is con-
siderable of a task to get a bath once a
week, out the Cinnamon takes his
daily and we take off our bat to his
habits, if this be true,
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law yOu OVOl "oO JIG VI UuOSo
people who has met and knows all the
great men of the day and .yet.who.is
about as important as a lighted match
in a cycloneY We met one the other
day and for two long hours he bored
us with what he and Tom Reed, ,,and'
Bill Mckinley and Teddy Roosevelt
and himself used to do when they
were cnums. He saw either one
Of them, but actually thought he COULD
make people believe that he was on
such terms with men Of that kind that
no could slap them on tho back and
and jab them in the neither ribs, and
guy them in thegapresenceA Of their
friends-in ia ct that be could be i'm
prudently familiar with them. Those
fellows are lacking in the upper. story.
'You ought to have seen the ex-
animation we had in the high school
today " said a member of that brain
gymnasium y e~sterday' Several of
us pupils sat up till twelve O'Clock
last night studying the second Grafton
and expected the whole examination
in Lstin t. be on that: work and the
examination was just as easy as
child's play That's one of ..1e OK.
periences in lie we expect the
difficult Gnu md the easy We a.e
%:xreeably disappointed. This il the
side of life that is really mos lisap'
pointing when it comes We getyn,
metal up to the high water mark an6
when we accomplish someth1n g with
half u stored up energy expended,
the other half is turned into disap
pointment There is more pleasure II
pursuit than in possession
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"People are getting a better under
standing about North Dakota thai
they once had," said a real estat
man the other day. 1.-THE time wa,
when I never thought of bring ing