Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1903-09-04
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*,. PERSONS AND THINGS ~
AS Seen by Gath.

As Seen by Gath.
An exchang e-one of those things
that helps increase the circulation OF
the average newspaper without profit
to the owner thereof recently con-
tanned a long article for boys on the
topic of being a nan Our said ex-
change is far behind the times. The
average boy is doing all in his power
to be a man, and he is pushing the
process like a farmer %sprouting hot
bed plants for his early garden. lie
begins to shave----in theory-by the
time he is twelve years Of age. He
knows more than men at fifty when he
is a year past the shaving point. He
is beginning to look for a wife by
the time he is fifteen, and at sixteen,
wonders how the world managed to
get along for so many years without
him. At eighteen he is married if
he has been lucky enough to have
found a couple of parents would take
chances on a daughter more silly than
himself, assuming his name. 1t does
not take a boy long to be a man in
these days. The process used to be
longer, but we have adopted telegraph
methods in that as we'll as everything
else.
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Gath came in contact with a travel
ing man the other day, one Of those
happy souls who live always in good
hotels, firt with pretty girls, and
endeavor to keep the merchants from
buying his entire stock, samples
and all. The conversation turned
upon money-peculiar how we al
ways talk about the absent-and ne
called our attention to the fact that
a silver dollar of 1894 was good for
a trip to the st. Louis exposition. We
are not exactly certain about whether
it's the 1894 or1895 silver dollar that is
at such a premium, but n OF the
other Of these dates will make a good
profit to the finder. Our friend had
succeeded in capturing a couple of the
1894 brand, and is on the lookout for
some bearing that Of 1895. The old
and odd coin collecting business is q
funny thing and we a frequently
find a person who can tell the value
of almost every one from those thirty
pieces that burned the pocket Of Judas
to those of heather tribes of Africa
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"Mr. Gath: I found a grammatical
error in one Of your articles the othe
day. A. J. c.
There is nothing surprising in that
Our critic, the front end elevation
of whose name might be Ann Jermim
or Andrew Jackson, might nav
found dozens Of them had she posses
ed the ability to know them when sh
saw the n. Our critic is probabl
one Of those pestiforous cranks thu
inficts humanity, and who spend tw
minutes in thinking what to say an
two hours in thinking how to say i
The world is full of such people. s
long as we are able to make rea'
ers understand what we mean, '
shall not bother our weary brain wi
the construction of long drawn o
and ridiculous sentences. the Gu
struction of which is necessary in Q
der to avoid closing a sentence with
proposition. That is the error o
critic complains Of, we suppose fro
the clipping sent with the note. Y
do not expect to live more than a hu
bred years and life is too short
trouble with these little things. TIL
NAV do for old maids but not for me
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wish you would express 70
opinion on that article said
gentleman recently as he handed us
copy of a paper where a young Won;
had said some very mean things to
editor because the latter had defend
the Mormans in presenting their dc
trines to the people. "Ought tn
not to have as much religious fire
dom as any other denomination"
asked. Not by a long ways. Ma
people have a very peculiar idea
freedom. They seem to think
means a license for anything the inc
vidual may desire That is not FIRE
dom. it is anarchy. Freedom mea
the right Of the individual to {
within such bounds as do not injure a
other. See the difference betwe
freedom and nanarchy? No religio
or other doctrine should be permit
to be promulgated which is injuric
to the public morals, for the puri
of the public mind is superior to t
rights of the individual. The Norm
religion is a modern fake, and VIII
the disgusting pOlygamOus practi