Devils Lake inter-ocean and Devils Lake free press. (Devils Lake, Ramsey County, N.D.) 1905-1909, 1908-01-17

during the past 2SsWeek Weathe
man is certainly giving North Dakot.
the best he has int his shop, but w
haven't seen such things as the For
um reports, since New Year. If thu
Forum man did not live an . prohibi
! ton state we might think he had beer
viewing things through rose coloree
glasses.-Wahpeton Times,
If the lumber gets much scarcel
farmers can make more raising tree.
than, grain.-Fargo Forum.
The Mandan Pioneer; runs a column
called Parkin Notes-at this, time O.
year-especially as it is leap year
why not call it "sparkinn Notes?"-
Lisbon Free Press. %$s Il
A tall story Of the capture Of q wilt
man near Yelva is now going the
rounds of the state papers. It may BIZ
true, but makes a noise like a fake
Darlington Independent.
Too liberal a use of the shears does
not reflect credit on newspaper man
It savors SO much of his inability tt
produce, but if the shears must be
used, it should be done with some
degree of respect for newspaper ethics
and due credit given. = ~ ~
Not long ago the Tribune man
wrote an editorial which in his blush
ing modesty he deemed too good tc
be swiped, but 10! and behold. in read
ing one of the exchanges this week, he
found the front page adorned with
this production from his pen, with ut.
ter disregard for the usual courtesy.
Brother, sin like that no more
Edinburg Tribune.
We dare say you'll get used to that
in time, old man.
A Darlington man complained be-
cause his wife sold the baby carriage
to buy tickets for the Dode Fisk con-
cert. He ought to be thankful she
didn't sell the baby to buy an elegant
new set of furs-New Rockford
Transcript.
In these days of nature fakirs, we
could not help but doubt the truth of
the stories from the different sections
of the state concerning the discovery
of mosquitoes, meadow larks, pussy
willow buds and other evidences of
spring in December, but we throw up
our hands, they are no doubt true
Last Saturday one of the youngsters
here in town came running into this
Office, aglow with excitement and
showed us newly Matched butterfly,
just out of it's swaddling clothes. He
had found it summing itself on a green
leaf on one of the trees in his yard
and contentedly tanning the balmy
zephyrs with it's delicate, silken wings.
We are unable to explain why this is
thus. If the warmth Of the political
campaign is responsible for the elem
ecny of the winter, we predict that the
month of June will break all records
| for excessive heat.-Towner Tribune.
The other day one Texas woman
was twice widowed in twelve hours.
If she wasn't red-headed before, she
certainly had right to be after that.
Elk. -
| And now an Ohio man wants to take
Harry Thaw's place. Is there any
Office an Ohio man won't take?-Fargo
Call. '' y
Unable to see the fun of the thing,
George AIDE has withdrawn from be.
hind the Fairbanks boom in Indiana.
bismarck Tribune. y
The Grand Forks Herald and Times
are scrapping over that Tom Marshall
$75,000.-Lawton Leader.
The state will soon have a new in.
stitution in the blind asylum at Bath
gate, provision for which was made
by the legislature two years ago and
which is announced as being nearly
ready for opening. The blind pupils
of the. state have previously been
cared for at the South Dakota insti.
tute at Gary. There is not a great
number of them, but the number viii
probably be increased now that there
is home institution for their care
Bismarck Tribune. ~ '' 21@%}
The Judge who sentenced a man to
the penitentiary for life for cold blood.
ed murder at Pembina, recently, sew.
erely criticised the capital punishment
law and said it was but another name
for murder. With all our judges and
governors declaring against capital
punishment it will not be long before
it will be done away with in this coun:
try. >. This is a rather. large question.
but from the fact 1t has been allowed
to stand as it stands in this state at
tho nrooopf fir,o fo,, 1.o1,o,.,1 49,. l. :.