Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1903-10-16

the electric lights to be turned on I
That is since you were young It's
one of the peculiarly funny things In
life. Our grandmothers lit a tallow
dip made with her own hands, and
gave just about as much light
as a half burned match, and went
about her work as unconcernedly as
she were blessed with the
light of the noon day sun. Now, we
nowl if the electric light is not turn
ell on a the proper time, and go
cropping around striking matches until
our pants resemble those of a member
of the Sons of Rest. Funny how we
have advanced.
eas ~
A boot logger from Richburg came
over INTO Bottineau county with
six quart bottles Of whiskey
he proposed to sell to the un-
victims at 81 each.
While he was hitching his team, a
thresher hit him over the head, and a
companion took the sack containing
the entire supply. The booze ven
der left for Rickburg and refused to
have the parties prosecuted.
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It is decidedly interesting to read
the reports of the storm that for the
second time within the last few weeks
has swept the Atlantic coast and
wrought ruin and disaster to dozens of
It is passed Dy as a matter of
course, while the death list is hardly
mentioned. A short time ago a storm
over the northwest and half
column headlines we're used to tell
the fearful story. Yet not one-third
as much damage was done in the
whole state of North Dakota as the
eastern storm did in each of half a
dozen cities. The general idea of
these storms is therefore doubtly
erroneous. 1t augments the western
and diminishes the eastern. The
consequence is that the storm condi-
tions of the northwest are very much
and the country injured &C.
cordingly. If a few correspondents
who lack a balance wheel, and who
rush off the overdrawn stories from
the west could b. suppressed, and the
country at largo made to understand
the true conditions there would be a
much larger increase in the immigra-
tion to the northwest.
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"Does local environment make the
for classic %literatu1e2 Will
Gath please tell us %
If n comes to think of it, how
much literature owes to the country
walk. 1t was to that long walk out
side the wall of Athens and to the
long talk that Socrates held with
Phaedrus under the plane tree by the
banks of the Ilissus that we owe one
of the most beautiful of the dialogues
Of Plato. There had been no Georges
had not Virgil loved the country
Horace must as often have circumam
bulated his Sabine farm as he peram-
bulated' the Via sacra
Chaucer must sometimes have pill
gimed afoot, and Spenser trode as we'll
as pricked Ger the plain. Shakes
peare's poaching episode gives US a
glimpse into his youthful pursuits
Milton oft the woods among wooed
Philomel to hear her even.song; and
even after his blindness not the more
ceased he to wander where the Muses.
haunt clear spring, Or shady Grove, or
sunny hill. The Traveller of Gold.
smith was the outcome of a walking
tour; so was Robert Louis Stevensons
Travels in the Cevennes with a donkey
To how many minds walks about
the green fiat meads of Oxford have
been a quiet stimulant we may Sc
a hint from Matthew Arnold Was i
to Newman that Jowett, meeting hin
alone and afoot, put the query,
"Nunquam minus solus guam quun
solus2' Of Jowett's walks many
tale is told; Of De Quincy, VIII
spent his youth in wanderings; o
William Cowper, the gentle singer o
the winter walk; of Thoreau Mr.
John Burroughs; of that prince o
walkers, Of whom The Spectator sal
it was ''half a pity that such a MAJ
could not go walking about forever
for the benefit of people who are no
gifted with legs so stout and eyes s
discerning, - mean that erudit
nomad, George Borrow; of these an
many another lover of outdoor natur
it is needless to speak.