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Devils Lake inter-ocean and Devils Lake free press. (Devils Lake, Ramsey County, N.D.) 1905-1909, 1906-10-26


Morningside college Sioux
City, Iowa, interested us with a
short talk on preparation for
examination 3 and DR.. Hill,
preside lent Of the Morriston Ne
gro school Tenn ssee, with
educat ton of the negroes. 4
Or. Spencer, who has Been in
terested in the missionary work
IN the orient for % years, ! spoke
on 4 progress Of education ia
Z
In connection with the regular
English course, all the stud ellts
Devils Lake inter-ocean and Devils Lake free press. (Devils Lake, Ramsey County, N.D.) 1905-1909, 1906-10-26

to be found in q lifetime. He ID
iopenhearted, sincere and never
foTgets q friend and il 10 one Sf
the Jokes which il some times told
against the Judicial dignity that
when sentencing an old timer whs
had been guilty of 5 number bfs
attractions De the law that the
Judge feelingly referred to the
friendship that he had had for the
Fculprit for many years during
their early days III the country, I.
On the bench Judge Cowan us
vigorous and aggressive and il;
something more than 8 listener.
He directs and his decisions are
usually we'll founded. Grand
Forks Evening Times.
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who are not taking journalism
|are required to write one rhetori-
teal each term. hey are given
Itheir choice Of subj matter.
|M the work ID satisfa ctory ID 1.-THE
lcritics, the student delivers it
leither from notes or by reading
it before the faculty and
| student body. This work is for
tine encourage cement Of public
lspell
Devils Lake inter-ocean and Devils Lake free press. (Devils Lake, Ramsey County, N.D.) 1905-1909, 1906-10-26
GIVING JUDGE A jolly
Cowan Visits Grand Forks and the
Times Interviews Him

Judge John E. Gowan Of Devils
Lake, who id spending q few days
in the city, is one Of the pioneer
products Of the state and his life
would read like u romance, were.
| 1t written with all It's details in
connection with his work in the
state. HeSisa d Canadian by BIRTH
and after taking his course in col
| lege, and reading medicine for two
wears packed his earthly posses
sions in his pocket and took the
first opportunity for North Dakota.
Heslandada az Devils Lake before
the town got there, and becoming
Irather lonesome waiting for it to
Iovertake him, he went out to
Grand Harbor where there was no
|3harbor and filed on q claim. He
lived on the claim as equired by.
law because there was no other
place to spend the time. The date
ofshis arrival at Devils lake is
marked in the Ayers Cherry
Pectoral almanac which he kept
during the time, as June IA, 1882.
While residing on his claim he
concluded that the law was about
his proper sphere and borrowing
| a Blackstone he began getting
confused as to what the law was.
Judge Morgan, now of the supreme
court, who sits at all sessions un-
less legally disq Allied gave
/ Cowan pointers and at the end
Of two years he succeeded in gett-
! ing a permittot tell the. people
what they should and should not
do. About this time two other
things happened in his life. He
proved on his claim and got mar
aried and yofar there has neEerbeen
Eany attempt to cues ton the merits
4 of eth aetnrning sto Devils
Iaake, Which had decided ITO be-
come town, he taught school fo1
a few months III order to gStt
money enough to buy q coda, and
then he took his law library down
town one morning under his arm
lSaara,d opened his ofiica. the principal
4 act III which was the I'M ockine
4 of the door. Later when the boys
l who, al are now L, the leatpdl iing business
4 he men sc Devils Lake decided to
/ turn the regular teacher out 81
q the school the future iiufist was n Is
1 selected stt Is finish The 9iolb, and Tie
second day he sthrews three of the
future business mon 81 the city
head foremost down the stairs and
Devils Lake inter-ocean and Devils Lake free press. (Devils Lake, Ramsey County, N.D.) 1905-1909, 1906-10-26
s1eHen % eHoaeHueHeRe eHoaou
: VALLEY CITY NORMAL !:
Observation-Disclosures

Observation-Disclosures a0RoR1
The two basket ball squads
have commenced their regular
practice under the management
Of Prof. Hatch, instructor in
athletics.
On Oct. 18th, the stud
were granted a half holiday to
attend the first foot ball game
Of the season, played between
the v. CT N. boys and Lisbon
Devils Lake inter-ocean and Devils Lake free press. (Devils Lake, Ramsey County, N.D.) 1905-1909, 1906-10-26
the purpose Of becorning more
prof ient for her work.

Miss Jennie Mac regor, gradu-
ate Of MINI sofa university, be-
comes assistant teacher in
English this year. This Isl a
necessary Step on account Of the
increase Of English work.
IA number of prominent clergy
romthe Methodist Epis CO.
pal inference, Theldsin this city
last week, visited the normal,
and spoke before the student
body. Dir. Lewis, presid lent Of
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Do it now. Insure your grain
in granaries, buildings. and
household goods with George IN.
Mooers. Lowest rates for stand
ard stock policies.
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high school. The score was 8
to 0 in.favor of Valley City. N

The enrolment at present is
about 300, and others are coming
every day. The attend lance has
never been so large before dur
ing the fall term.
Miss Fannie EC. Amidon,
musical director of this institu-
ton, has returned to resume her
duties after d years absence.
While away, part Of her time
was devoted to the study Of
that art in New x ork City with
Devils Lake inter-ocean and Devils Lake free press. (Devils Lake, Ramsey County, N.D.) 1905-1909, 1906-10-26


Isl q well | kllllo y fact
that the w HI'TEt SWAN
CAFE is the best short
order restau rant in Dew
i lis Lake.
You get what YOU call
for, and it's cooked to
suit your taste very
paIa he. D
Take your meals at the
WHITE sW7 CAFE
and you'll break b
b gu 1, il kee 81 n & It's
cheaper than keeping
house with q hired girl.
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of a few carloads of oranges to the
east by the Santa Fee. Now how does
it come, 1 would like to ask the editor
Of the esteemed Bee while the
orange and lemon production of the
whole northern and central part of the
state has grown to only 1000 carloads
in the southern counties it has grown
to 10000 carloads, or fifteen to one?
What 1t Means
Surely this momentous fact indicates
that the sensible and enterprising peo-
pie of the northern and central coun-
ties saw that it was not in citrus Gull
ture that wealth lay for them? The
atrablliouS Bee may as well admit
that it's constituency knew what was
best for them. Nobody was holding
them and they were as free as South
ern California to grow oranges and
lemons.
Another thing that should not be
overlooked is that the Sacramento
orange grower had transcontinental
railway long long before Los Angeles
dreamed of one, thus giving the north
ern citrus belt this enormous adj
vantage. The Southern Pacific entered
Sacramento in 1868 as to through traf-
fic, while it only entered Los Angeles
in 1S76-a difference of eighteen years
Citrus growing has prospered and eX-
banded so enormously I'm Los Angeles
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1T was to be expected that the auto.
mobile would break into rhyme.
The expected has happened-and
most delightfully."- "Motor Goose
Rhymes for Motor Ganders" is a series
of exquisite parodies on Mother Goose,
done with just the proper touch. clever,
artistic and bright, The illustrations
are all that the text needs to make
the joy in handling It complete. 1t is
a little treasure of foollshness.
Motor Goose Rhymes for Motor
Ganders. BY Herman Lee Meader. New
York: The Grafton Press.
ARIZONA Sketches" by ]. A. Munk.
M. D., very well got up and hand
somely illustrated, might as appro-
priately have been called 1.-The Won
ders of Arizona" After reading it one
feels that Arizona is the most mar
velous country in the world. There is
the Grand Canyon, of course-we all
know about that, although this book
upsets some notions about it-but how
many of us have heard of Meteorite
mountain? And yet It Is natural
phenomenon as astonishing as the
Grand Canyon. In Arizona are the per-
feetly built structures of that mys-
terious prehistoric race, the Cliff
Dwellers, and the modern remnant of
that curious race, the Moquis, the
'snake dancers" But the most sur
prises will probably be found i'm the
chapters on Vegetation-a thing few
suppose Arizona possesses.
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thousand carloads of citrus fruits to the
east, including those from Porterville,
which, by the way, is in what 1 consider
Southern California, the Tehachapi be-
ing an entirely imaginary line.
For the sake of a fair presentation IF
the matter L will admit this two thou
sand carloads as against our last year
shipment of thirty thousand carloads.
AS to the quality of the fruit 1 will
waive that, as 1t would be like disput-
ing the quality of Robertson county
whisky to raise any question as to our
Riverside navels or the Mediterranean
sweets. I admit also that, in sunny
spots near Oroville and Chico and Por-
tervlle, the orange colOrs and natures
more quickly than in Los Angeles and
adjoining counties But these sapient
journalists overlook the fact that this
earlier maturity of their fruit brings it
into conflict with the Florida and Sicily
orange, while the Southern California
orange comes into market entirely it's
own and dominates it.
Not only do L admit that the north
ern counties can produce oranges, but
] have n perfect recollection that they
were producing them twenty years
ago. Two decades ago they held a
citrus fair at Sacramento. Orange Gull
ture here was in it's infancy. 1t was
that year that j. de Barth Shorb of
San Marino made his first shipment
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No Reason to Change

creaslng audience. The successful de-
lineation of characters like John Wade,
Ben Carroll. AFRO Craig and Allen Sid
way throws new strong lights on the
inside workings of American business
and political graft"
Slaves of Success, by Elliott Flower,
author of "The Spoismen," etc. With
twenty illustrations by Jay Hambidge.
Boston: l.. G. Page & Co.
Fifty and One Tales of Modern
Fairyland," are not only entertaining,
but they are actually new. Every child
in the land will want to hear over and
over again about the Red Gobolink,
who lives in bottle Of ink, the Tobacco
Imp, the Quarrelsome Knives and their
peculiar fate, the Balloon that ran
away with disobedient Albert i'm 1t, the
adventure of the Automobile that had
conscience and a host of other en-
tirely new nursery characters. These
are tales of absorbing interest for chill
dren without the usual characteristic
Of bloodshed, love or revenge in them
Fifty and One Tales of Modern
Fairyland. BY f. Strange Kolle. New
York: The Grafton Press.
brothers of Peril" by Theodore Rob-
erts, tells of the adventures of a young
English cavalier. who, left behind by
the fleet, finds another Englishman
with his daughter and servants. who
Is hiding from the law. French adj
Yenturer and pirate, who Is an unwel-
come sutton for the daughter, plays an
important part. Encounters between
the Indians and the small colony OF
white men on shore and perilous ad-
ventures at sea with a shipload OF
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pulsion of our motor cars. AS a. mat
ter of fact, every avenue, street lane
and road in the great city of New York
had been fitted with the wires of let
ters over which were constantly rum
ming the latest and best thought of the
writer's of the hour 1t was as easy for
New York householder under this
superb plan to secure his reading mat
ter as it is for him today to turn on
the gas for the illumination of his
drawing room, or in the privacy of his
bath to extract hot or cold water by
the turning on of a faucet.
Great Ingenuity
was amazed at the wonderful in
genuity of the plan That a novel
placed in the central reservoir of the
ly transmitted to a reader in Harlem,
Long Island City or darkest Brooklyn
by the mere pressure of a button struck
me as amazing. l had once observed
in the late nineties of the nineteenth
century that 1 had no doubt the day
would come when books would be
served by book men to consumers daily,
just as milk and breakfast rolls are
served by milkmen and bakers, but
that literary service would ever be-
come public utility like the service of
water or the delivery Of ones letters
by the postman 1 had never even
dreamed. Yet here, only ten years
ahead of me. this very thing was going
on as merrily and attracting as little
public wonderment as though it were
the most natural thing in the world.
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the laurel from brows that now are
proudly wearing it.
AS for books as we know them, there
were none in sight in the Boston public
library, save off in one corner of the
librarians room one single copy of
"Frenzied Finance" by Thomas w.
Lawson, in a glass case, !-ept as mere
curiosity for coming generations to
cape upon in astonishment at the
clumsy ways of their ancestors, and at
the same time as a reminder of what
heights Boston had once attained to in
literary achievement.
Not Pleasant
So far from pleasant was this dis
covery that withdrew my gaze for the
moment and by a slight deviation of
to southwest I drew the New York
public library into focus Possibly /
had no right to expect to find any of
my books in the Boston public library,
where there is always a rather nicer
discrimination exercised in the Selec-
ton of books for public consumption
than elsewhere. Massachusetts is pro-
tectionist in principle, not only in poll
tics but in its literary matters as well,
and Boston in particular has ever been
careful to keep from the ears of her
young anything savoring either of evil
or of fippancy. New York, on the
other hand, is more cosmopolitan, and
writers like Hall Game, Marie Corelli
and myself might hope for a recgoni-
ton here, which in the home Of Elmer
son, Huxley and Thomas w. Lawson
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Arizona Sketches, by j. A. Munk NJ.
ID. New York: The Grafton Press.
SILVER Bells" by Col. Andrew C. p.
Haggard. shows that under the thin
veneer of conventionality and custom
Turks In many hearts the primeVal in
stinct to throw civilization to the
winds and bark back to the ways of
the saVages in the wilderness, and it
often requires but mental crises or
an emotional upheaval to break
through the coating. Godfrey Digby
was such an one, who left home and
kindred to seek happiness among the
Indians of Canada, in the vast woods
which always hold an undefinable
mystery and fascination. He gained
renown as a mighty hunter, and the
tale Of his life there and the romance
which awaited him will be heartily
enjoyed by all who like a good love
story with plenty of action not of the
"stock" order. Silver Bells. the In
dian girl. is a perfect Child of ma
ture."
Silver Bells, by Col. Andrew C. p.
Haggard. Boston: L. c. Page & Co.
Another striking book by Elliott
Flower, whose work is already so well
known, both through his long stories
and his short contributions is "SlaVes of
Success" Like his first success, THE
Spoilsmen." II deals with politics, but
In the broader field of state and national
instead of municipal. The book has
recently appeared I'm condensed form AS
serial. where it attracted widespread
attention, and the announcement of its
appearance in book form will be well
coined by Mr.. Flowers rapidly in
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would be denied us for very good rea-
sons.
A man may write very good music
for instance, for Broadway theater of
the first class and yet fail to have his
opera produced by Mr.. ConriedS
forces in the sacred presence of the
four hundred at the Metropolitan opera
house. Similarly it was no reflection
upon Mr.. Caine and Miss Corelli and
myself if our particular style of liter
allure was not favored at the Hub. New
York's standard of taste was about as
high as we could hope to reach-or at
least that is the way l consoled myself
for the situation that revealed itself to
me in the Boston library.
In New York / found the magnifi-
cent library finished but, alas! it was
less like a library than huge literary
distributing agency, a sort of depart
ment store of letters. Like the Bos-
ton library, it held no books in sight,
and all its matter was phonographical-
ly circulated, only with a difference
which struck me as characteristic OF
distinguished novelist who had re-
Gently died and left all his royalties to
the library, a house service had been
installed which enabled the public to
get at home all the stores of letters
the library held in trust.
The greater part Of the building had
been turned into a power house by
which thousands of volumes were
transmitted hourly to the residences,
apartments and tenement houses of the
city, just as electricity is sent over a
third rail in our own time for the pro-
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Tense it was at least only against my
self that l sinned. since ii was no part
of my plan to appropriate to my own
use the work of any other. l little
thought as this brilliant idea flashed
across my mind of some of the risks
ran to my own pride in venturing
upon such an enterprise, but 1t was not
long before 1 was disillusoned.
In 1914
Turning the screw so that the lens
rested upon the year 1914, 1 sought to
public library at that time. This SUI
perb creation of the public spirit of the
Hub INTELLECTUALLY still rested upon
its present site, but within 1 found
strange changes. Not only were my
own books not to be found upon its
shelves, but none others of modern au-
thors. Upstairs, where there had once
been reading rooms of rare beauty and
of studious quiet, were lecture or read
ing halls in which people were read to
instead of reading for themselves.
There was a service of current fiction,
but it came no longer from printed
pages as of yore, but from large phono-
graphs placed high upon platforms
having sounding boards upon them so
that no word issuing from the cavern
Gus megaphonic jaws should be lost.
To the utterances of these at the
moment of my intrusion upon the scene
in at least sixty reading rooms We're
consumers of the period listening. Each
hall was crowded to it's uttermost ca
pacity, the audience made up for the
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TT was perhaps an unworthy effort
upon my part, but the way it turned
\ out may work ultimately for the
general public good. Trifling the other
afternoon with the spectrophone in the
darkness of it's inventors den, 1t oc-
Cured to me that the possibilities II
afforded as labor-saving device were
enormous, and [ Immediately started in
to turn the thing to account in that
particular direction.
Why should 1 not, thought l. twist
the lens a half dozen or more years into
the future and look up some library or
book shop in which my own books re-
posed, seek out those that were still
not only unwritten but as yet un-
thought of, copy down their contents
then and there, and so save myself
both the physical and intellectual eff
fort, however moderate, that would be
otherwise involved in their preparation?
I fairly Rugged myself with delight
at the idea, for 1 must confess that
sometimes the labor involved in the
preparation of one of my books is al
most as great as that of the reader
who for some compelling cause is after
ward required to peruse 1t. The spec
trophone would make my end of the
work practical Slnecure. The LABOR
involved in the prod lction of my mag
mum opus would be no greater than
that of the ordinary copyist who takes
the manuscript of another and reduces
it to more legble form, and If in thus
avoiding the difficult road to achieve
ment were guilty of any moral Of
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pirates led by the French buccaneer
make story of breathless interest, but
all ends we'll when the fishing fleet
returns, and the lovers sail for home
All in all. Brothers of Peril is a
story of swing and action. with good
descriptions and charming love pas
sages.
Brothers of Peril, by Theodore Rob.
erts. Boston: l.. G. Page & Co.
w. d. McCrackan's extensive and
prolonged travels through Switzerland
and the Tyrol, and his appreciation of
the love for his romantic district and
its people, render him most fitting
medium to present It's history, its scenic
charms, the quaintness of it's customs
and the personality of the Tyrolese to
the reading public, as he does in 1.-THE
Fair Land Tyrol." His former work.
Romance and Teutonic Switzerland,
has become a standard handbook OF
travel, and the recent editions of Bae-
deker's switzerland" pay it the UNI
usual complement of referring to 1t as
a valuable book for the visitor to
Switzerland.
The Fair Land Tyrol. BY w. d.
McCrackan, author of "Romance and
Teutonic Switzerland" etc. Boston;
l.. C. Page g. Co.
The Eternal Spring" Meth Boyces
latest, has been called "a novel of very
original interest and literary power"
ON the strength of her first two books
Mrs. Hapgood ("Neith Boyce") has
been ranked by the critics among the
cleverest of American authors. In
THE Eternal Spring" she has written
a love story that Is full of dramatic
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most part of women and young per-
sons-an indication that, however much
methods of publication might have
changed in the course of a decade, the
personnel of the reading forces of the
period differed little from that of to-
day. Brief visits to each hall failed
to disclose that out of sixty works of
fiction in course of perusal that day
anything of mine was occupying to the
least degree any measure of public at
tention.
Withdrawing my eye from these
large literary gatherings, l peered
through the corridors of the building
and was entertained to observe that
for readers desiring books not of the
current hour, there had been provided
individual monographs located in al
coves, into which cylinders containing
the especial work desired were placed,
and which were listened to in rapt at
tention through the usual insulated
wires with rubber nozzle ends con-
Meeting the ear drum of the consumer
with the cylinder within, exactly as
the martial notes of Sousa marches
are now conveyed to the public ear
by slot machines in railway stations
and ferry houses.
There were Kipling cylinders and An
thony Hope alcoves and corners given
over to a vast array of unknown popu-
lar authors, some of whom are now
probably mischievous schoolboys, who
hate composition as they hate squills
and other nauseous doses, but who in
the ten years that are yet to come will
seize their pens with avidity and wrest