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Devils Lake inter-ocean and Devils Lake free press. (Devils Lake, Ramsey County, N.D.) 1905-1909, 1909-05-14
IRA Ter
REP TRAY OR EDS DAuGH
TER on oHEER FsAMsEYY# #
ss5ss5ss COUNTY SETTLERS.

A little after seven d clock Mondays
morning, May sos il the presence
of fSthe immediat te relati YES and q few
friends Rev. Faith her Augustine of ST.
sJoseph's Gatholic church spoke the
words that Joined in holy wedlockS
Lulcy Rosetta annier and Fred IL
Traynor. two popula az Young people of
this cit as;E19 ;5s
"a asuring the nuptt mass the bride
looked loYely in d beauti iful gown ofs
imported white embroid dered batisteI
and white hal. she was AZ.
tended bys her siste Miss I,awrenal
Vannie who vyore an imported pink
Swiss gown and hat 70 mattel. The
oom was attended by Dan rens
nan of Devils Lake
ffter the cerennon the bridal party
drove Sto the Nannie ier farm near Grand
Harbor where the wedding breakfast
was SERVED Covers were laid for the
bride and groom D the Il brides parents
ana MRS king Dan
Brennan and Miss Laurena vannier
Mrs. ira II the young daugh.
ter 81 the wen known ioneer settler,
ENIr and George Vannier OF
Grand Earbor Dak. she ii gra--
Iiduate the Eoieyi rs Like high school
andd of l1e normal and has
several years the North
Dakota schools alnnost two years
she was deputy county superintend-
ent of tie Ramsey county schools and
lsby her pleasing perso ality has made
many ffriends' who vii I now wish her
fwell in her welded life.
torney Fred q. ynor the groom
iisSwelI known sthron hout North sDako
He is graduate of the state
/ university and the university college
] offs law and has been associate with
! nderson of this city II the
Ipractice Or law for almost Ave years
He sis % young man who has made Z
success of his chosen profe fession and
built up d reputa tion Tor sauare deal eat
ing, honesty, and sabili During his nt'
J, student days az the lniY iYersity he was
4 recognized sas one of the leaders Of Thy
student body and cong ulations AMI
4 best wishes for himself and bride q
4 come from many formers uniy ersit.
\ people attered throug hout the land rldl
! 55lAt last session of the state eslegiiss
sIIIature ne represented this district AM
4 was consid dered one of the sbrig gbtes
4 iansnbers Of fhe 1egisla tive bod
The many lends of Mr.. and Mrs rs
aynor 80 this city, count and stat, Z II
wish them . long welded life ofz pros
perity, appInsss and health Duriln, IN
the summer they WIN occlpy Dr
ZONES cot tage at chantauaua II aas
lsslWili sbe at ho ONE NY IsttE
Devils Lake inter-ocean and Devils Lake free press. (Devils Lake, Ramsey County, N.D.) 1905-1909, 1909-05-14

The #f1remen of tti1is are GER
:tainIy boogtine the tournament,
and if energy ana enthusiasm counts
Tor u any thing Devils Lake viii have
I the greatest tourna ament IA the history
3of the state his viii be without doubt
the largest thing "a the kind ever held
81 Devils LAX, and Il II the inter
est our people sto see 10 II that the
flremen have their nport q every
way possible max this tour
4 2snament q grand success Id every way.
Devils Lake inter-ocean and Devils Lake free press. (Devils Lake, Ramsey County, N.D.) 1905-1909, 1909-05-14
FIR
| ton 0
OUR NlAkIENI
It'll PEI EPARThf IN lflilT.
lNc I'M 81 oF .ssssI
ssTo MEN

The Faremen off this cisy have sent
/ out invita- lions to osithe various depart
ments the state ~ D, attend the tour
! snament u this III n 5th, 18TH m ana M
18th They ara = not only sent 10 all
the departments in the state hut also
1sto every post once ID ID stthe stat re- 5rtt
gardless of Whethe the town III large
I senough for d dep 1 arttnlent of n,t. The
INITIATION reads sas follows . ssSs5s III
3ss & Devils Lake 8. 1909 5s
no TIE Chief and mbers IRE Dc.
partment q every cttys ana Town
q Dakota "a sss sS
Wish to extend SO each ofes you
1 and toS every person in the vicinity al
yonr city 4 most riendly IMITATION to
Devils lake any time: but especially
1 III June 18th. and on
these sS dates the State Firemen's
Tournament viii Slb,e held ana We We
I know hat your viii bes greatly
beneatted by the aiiVanced instruc-
tionss that Wi zbe given along fire-
sdighting lines: new Fire
Fighting Apparatus VIII sbe shown ard
many instru tiyesS deno trations Win
s'be given: Hduca onal talks vim be
sSgiyen some of the ration's = fore.
most FIranen "
and anus cement galore. Leave
promise you the liyli.
sest time sof your Es55 *S85
5ss. We Devils AXE people think We are
LIVING very best little
Scs cities On earth and sye are going 50
I make you think so 100 II you are with
s3us June 18th, sth sth ana q
ery sincereIy yours. &:
s DIP ARTMEnyT, Il,
TlnJri IN 1 ,f,lsa
Devils Lake inter-ocean and Devils Lake free press. (Devils Lake, Ramsey County, N.D.) 1905-1909, 1909-05-14

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The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1909-09-08
How WGmen's Hats Preserve
the Mississippi Levees.
Iseeeeoeooooooeeeeeeeesees

1t is difficult to see the connection
between women's hats and the levees
along the Mississippi River, never
theless, absurd as this may appear in
a bare statement of fact, it is the
truth. During the past fall and win
ter feminine headdresses, in the form
of the fashionable fur turbans, have
indirectly been instrumental in pre-
serving intact the great stretches of
embankment which restrain the pow
erful Mississippi from sweeping over
the surrounding country. The me-
dunn through which this interesting
state of affairs has come about is the
muskrat.
In practically every instance the
original cause of crevasse along the
river front has been traced to musk
rats hole, and though the State of
Louisiana has tried in numerous ways
to exterminate these pests, their num-
bers seemed to increase. Unwittingly
the milliners of New Orleans came
to the rescue when they purchased
several hundred muskrat furs from
trappers in the neighborhood, and
this new trimming for the jaunty lit
tie turbans Immediately sprang into
popularity. Hunters quickly learned
of this demand for "rats," and great
numbers of pelts were poured upon
the market, bringing an average price
of twenty cents apiece. Without great
difficulty an experienced trapper
might secure several dozen skins
daily, and this industry became de-
cidedly more profitable than cunning
for ducks and other game. It now
appears very probable that Louisiana
may rid herself entirely of the bur-
rowing rodeRts which have endan-
gered her cities and cost the State
many thousands of dollars annually.
-Harper's Weekly.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1909-09-08
AN UNFRIENDLY HORDE.

Mr.. Thomas crammed fresh stick
of birch into his raging little stove,
and closed the door which John Arm
old had left ajar on his entrance.
The tiny shoe shop thus became air.
tight. Then the proprietor replied
to Johns question of what he thought
Of New York.
Il can tell ye in 'mazing few
words" he said. 'It's considerable
of place. Lots doing, an splendid
big buildings, an schools, an
churches, an all that. They think
they're some punkins, too. An 1
amt saying that there amt plenty
of real smart ones there. Spite of
all that, though, | call 'em kind o.
ignorant, besides being cold in their
manners"
II want to know!" commented
John, visibly impressed by this re-
cital.
"I'll tell ye,' continued Mr..
Thomas Brother Toms boys Of
fee is down near the big Brooklyn
Bridge, and I used to go down there
and set good deal while my wife
visited with his wife up in Harlem.
when it come what they call rush
hour, | used to go down an stand on
the bridge an watch 'em passing by,
hundreds of 'em, on their home; an
got TO feel real friendly, an to know
lots of 'em by sight. But"
Mr.. Thomas paused impressively-
"but although | didn't miss an aft
noon whilst l was there, an that was
two weeks. nary one o. them men
ever give me a single glance of recog-
milton.
1T want my place to speak first,
me being stranger, an they home,
so to speak. l want going to push
myself but l tell ye what, John, two,
three times ] had to hold on to my
self to keep frcm telling of em Just
what l thought of such onfriendly
ways.
Why says I to Brother Toms
boy. how long do you s'pose one o.
them would be at Tunkett Corners
before we knew him we'll enough to
nod to an found out his name?"
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1909-09-08

. beauty. She looked to be about
twenty-five, and as in my experience
a woman is always at least ten years
older than she looks set her down
at thirty-fve or forty. She seemed
very much interested in me, regard
ing me with sort of sizing-up ex-
| preston in her brown eyes. She was
demure in her manner, and It seemed
to me she was inclined to patronize
me a little. On the whole she was
charming and was by no means dis
posed to fly from fate.
Other guests came from time to
time, and as Clara's time was much
taken up in showing them over the
farm and explaining the fine points
of the stock, l was thrown much with
Mrs. Bingham. theoretically should
have been transported by this ar
rangement, but l found myself rest
lSss when Clara was not about and
began to realize how attractive her
direct gray eyes and unaffected ways
were becoming to me. l was grateful
for the few tete-a-tetes she granted
me in the turkey run and while feed
ing pig weed to the fat Yorkshires,
but | wanted more of her society.
The fascinating widow devoted her.
self to me, but down in my heart re-
bellion was brewing. "Hang fate!
I'll marry whom l choose"
Your fathers coming up to spend
Sunday y cai1 C1aro aIcnit ha .
dear? He'll give me lots of points. I"
Dad arrived Saturday afternoon.
He had charge of the Chicago office
of our firm and l hadn't seen him
since visiting him In his "widower's
hall" in the Windy City some months
back. 1t was a real pleasure to meet
him.
The ladies were not on view when
he arrived and we repaired to our
rooms to make the simple toilet re-
quired for the evening meal. l must
have gone silently, for the couple
standing by the rail did not move till
my step struck the boards. I had
time to see my father with an arm
about the slender waist Of Mrs. Bing-
ham, and Mrs. Bingham with an arm
about my fathers noble coat collar,
before they quickly moved apart and,
turning, met my embarrassed sur
prise.
Don't co." said my father with
merry look in his eye. AZ want to
present to you the future Mrs. With
erspoon."
was glad it turned out like that,
as it didn't require any breach of
prophesy on my part or any expung-
ing of the record. was desperately
in love for the first time in my life,
and but for dads unexpected revela-
tion the prophetic page would have
been ruthlessly torn from my diary.
Before l went home l was engaged
to Clara.-Boston Post.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1909-09-08
THE COMMON NEED.

Unless one has travelled the arid
regions, one has no idea how good
water really is, declares DR.. William
7. Hornaday in "Camp-Fires on Des-
ert and Lava" He explains further
that he does not mean Apollinaris,
but just plain, old-fashioned well, or
"water-hole" OF desert tank" water,
as the case may be. This apprecia-
ton of water made the party very
sympathetic in regard to the fate of
certain wild fowl which appeared at
the tank" near which a nights
camp had been established.
Just at sunset, when our little
lonesome world was settling down
for the night, some one excitedly an
nounced discovery.
There are two ducks in the tank!"
Some one else quickly caught up a
loaded shotgun and hurried along the
side of the embankment to the upper
end of the water.
Secretly, l hoped that those ducks
would take alarm and fly away in
time. To shoot those little lone
some birds that had flown on weary
wing over a good hundred miles of
waterless desert, clear down from the
Gila River, seemed to me like a sin
against nature. Those two individual
ducks seemed entitled to our hospi-
tality and protection.
The god Vishnu elected to preserve
them. When we heard the report of
the gun our spirits sank; but when
the hunter quickly returned with the
terse announcement, II missed
them!" some one said:
I'm glad of it," and to our sur
prise he answered, 80 am II"
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1909-09-08
SPORTING BREVITIES.

Harvard has the greatest squad Of
water men that ever adorned an
American university.
The first Sea Girt Horse Show end
ed successfully, Babette winning the
harness championship
1t is said that s. G. Hildreth values
Fitz Herbert at $4,000, while j. G..
Greener has refused $4,000 for
Olambala.
Claro defeated Who Knows in
2.12M in a pacing race at the open
ing matinee of the New York Driving
Club at the Empire track.
Cottagers at Narragansett Pier
plan to make that resort the national
headquarters for polo and arrange a
match with an English team next
year.
Leach Cross, of New York, easily
took the measure of "Cy" Smith, of
Jersey City, in ten fast rounds OF
fighting at the Bedford Athletic Club,
Brooklyn.
Promoter McCarey has secured
permit to hold forty-five round fights
at Vernon, Cal, and says he will offer
a $4,000 purse, or ever more, for
the proposed Jefferies-Johnson mill.
The appearance of the little band
of lawn tennis experts from the Pa
cific Coast has done much for the
game in these parts this year. The
invasion has found the East unpre-
pared, In measure.
F. B. Alexander and II. II. Hackell,
the national lawn tennis doubles
champions, defeated George James
and Maurice Mclaughlin, the Pacific
Coast champions, 6-1, ca, in a
match at the Knollwood Country
Club.
A close friend of =. Fl. Hartman
says that the we'll known financier
will devote a large part Of his time
next year to recreation, and that he
will interest himself to no little ex-
tent in the race meeting at Saratoga
Springs.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1909-09-08
CARE OF CURRANT BUSHES.

Set your currant bushes quite deep,
and let them get a good grip on the
soil, for il they do not, an open win
ter has way of getting under the
roots and heaving them out. I al.
ways mulch them heavily with coal
ashes, or some other good mulch, and
the ground must be kept clean. If
set where quack grass has the slight
est hold, it will tangle itself into the
roots and finally beat you. The soil
should also be very thoroughly under
drained with stone or tile. While the
currant likes moist soil it cannot
endure wet or mucky place. The
rows should be about six feet apart.
leaving sufficient room for the culti-
vator, and this should be run con-
stantly until picking begins. The
bushes should just about reach over
to each other with their tips. 1t is
we'll enough to shade the ground, but
leaving the bushes open to sunshine
and air. Trimming the currant is a
simple affair, after you have once
solved it; but do not let an mex
perienced hand get hold Of the job,
for he will be likely to work mischief.
You must cut out most of the new
shoots or suckers, which are likely to
be abundant. If these grow they will
take the life from the larger stalks,
and you will soon have a mass of dead
wood, and of live wood that cannot
produce fruit. The old wood should
never be cut until it gets brittle and
can be replaced with new stems. That
Is, allow one or two of the very best
of the new canes to remain. provided
you see a probable need of them. A
currant stem should bear fruit for at
least FIVE years.-E. P. Powell, In the
Outing Magazine.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1909-09-08
TRAGIC HISTORY OF A DIAMOND.

The possession of the Hope dia-
mond recently sold in Paris for e16,-
600 is the story of a long series of
tragedies--murder, suicide, madness
and various other misfortunes. The
first recorded Western owner was the
great traveller, Jean Baptiste Taver-
nier, who was born in Paris in 1905
and who Giod at Moscow about the
year 1886. Tavernler, on his return
from the East, sold twenty-five large
diamonds to the Grand Monarqne in
1858, and among them the diamond
known by the name OF Hope. Taver-
nier's son involved his father in such
unfortunate speculations that he was
compelled to sell his estate to pay his
debts, and at the age of eighty-one to
start on a fresh journey to the East.
When 1t became part of the crown
Jewels Nine. de Montespan was in
monopoly of the Kings affections.
and he yielded to her request to wear
the famous blue diamond. But by a
curious coincidence her influence over
the King declined from about this
time, and Nine. de Maintenon took
her place. Nicolas Fouquet, Superin-
tendent-Genersl des Finances, bor-
rowed the diamond from Louis XIV.
for one of those costly fetes which he
gave, and which appear to have
reused the jealousy OF the King. He
kept 1t for some time; he fell into dis
grace, was imprisoned and died of
apoplexy. The diamond lay for a
long series of years during the regen-
cy with the other crown jewels, until
Marie Antoinette became Queen of
France. She heard of its extraordi-
nary beauty, and by the command Of
Louis XVI. 1t was given to her. She
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1909-09-08
Standard Oil Butter.

1t is bad enough to serve to the
poor of the country the abominable
oleomargarine produced by the beef
trust, but the limit Of popular pa
thence will be reached and there will
be great rumpus if an attempt is
made to feed the masses with STAN
dard Oil butter, which is nothing
more than the coagulated and de-
odorized grease of coal oil. II the
Federal Government has no sympathy
for the consumer, it should have
some consideration for that noble
and inoffensive animal, the COW, and
prevent her from being driven out Of
business by a heartless monopoly
New Orleans State.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1909-09-08
STRIPED BEETLES.
goIl.

Look out for the striped beetles.
They often attack and destroy melons
and cucumbers as fast as the plants
appear above the ground An appli-
cation of wood ashes, air-slaked lime
or gypsum, tainted with Kerosene or
turpentine or carbolic acid, will help
to drive them away. If you have only
a few plants, you can easily protect
each hill by erecting a mosquito net
ting guard over it until the plants be-
gin to run.-Indianapolis News.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1909-09-08

wore 1t, we are told, about her throat
at great ball at the Tuileries. The
Princesse de I.amballe, her bosom
friend-the friend for whom the his
toric Gainsborongh hat was first
made = occasionally borrowed and
wore the blue diamond. Marie An
toinette was beheaded and the Prin-
cesse de Lamballe was done to death
by Paris mob
For nearly forty years the diamond
remained perduO so far as the public
was concerned. It's actual history in
that interval will probably never be
fully told. 1t is said that Wilhelm
Falls, an Amsterdam diamond cutter,
had been commissioned to cut it, and
that 1t was stolen from him by his
son. The former was ruined and the
latter committed suicide. The young
er Falls is further said to have given
1t to a Frenchman, Francis Beaulieu,
a native of Marseilles, who came to
London and, when in the last stages
of destitution and ill-health, sent for
Daniel Eliason, London dealer, and
offered 1t for sale. Eliason paid the
price asked and took the diamond;
the next day Beaulleu died of starva-
tion. There can, however, be no
doubt about the fact that the diamond
was purchased from Eliason about
the year 1880 for s1S,OO0 by the late
Henry Thomas Hope, of Deepdene.-
London Times.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1909-09-08
Literature and Journalism.

Journalism is, and must be, in a
hurry; literature is not. Literature
deals with the permanent elements of
human things. A journalist has to
take the moods and occasions of the
hour and make the best of them. But
literature more or less describes the
attitude of Judge; the journalist
dealing with what are called live is.
sues, has to be more or less of an
advocate. Literature deals with
ideals, the journalist is a man of ac-
tion. He is not student, but man
of action, and he is concerned with
the real.-Lord Morley, on Literature
and Journalism, at Imperial Press
Conference, London.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1909-09-08
THIN THE APPLES.

In discussing the question as to
whether or not 1t will pay to thin ap-
pies, q practical fruit grower says
when there is a general crop of ap-
pies and the crop set is very full, so
that the chances for small fruit are
very great and widespread over the
country, it will pay to thin to such
an extent as to insure good sized
fruit; otherwise it will not pay, ex-
cept as a protection to the tree"
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1909-09-08
A GOOD APPLE CROP.

Henry e. Allen relates in the Ben
ton Harbor News how neighbor
treated an old orchard and his own
and got fine crop of apples while
others about him had none. He is
Porter Bryant, and he got $1,000 for
his fruit in the orchard-$400 for
the fall fruit, and $500 for the win
ter. Asked how he secured such a
fine result, Mr.. Bryant said: Il did it
by thorough cultivation and spraying
| bought an orchard near my own,
and one-half of it treated about the
same as my own, beginning in the
spring. The other half OF this orchard
was not sprayed or cultivated as it
should have been, so the result was
tnat the half | tended had nearly as
good crop of apples as my own or
chard, while the other half did not
pay expenses.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1909-09-08
Where "UncIe Tom" Was Written.

The old Kentucky homestead at
Covington in which Harriet Beecher
Stowe wrote the first chapters of
Uncle Toms Cabin" is to be torn
down, says the Cincinnati Commercial
Tribune.
The house was built in 1887, with
loop holes and lookouts. The heavy
oak doors and window shutters still
bear heavy indentations made by
tomahawks and dozens of arrow
heads are still embedded in hewn log
sides.-St. Louis Republic.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1909-09-08

smooth edge. The frame should be
set on the side of the wagon One
man should stand on the ground and
put the bunches or bundles on the
knife, while the other man stands in
the wagon and pushes the knife down
against the bunch, the knife cutting
the heads off, which fall into the wa
gon.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1909-09-08
NOON.

Charmed into silence lay
The forest, dimly lit;
No wind that summer day
Moved the least leaf of it:
No choric branches stirred
Its calm profound and deep,
Nor voice of any bird,
But silence dreamed like sleep.
Like dew upon the grass
1t fell upon my soul:
Loosed it to soar and pass
Beyond the stars control.
Vague memories it woke,
Shapes far too frail for touch;
And then the silence broke:
Lest | should learn too much.
Frederic Manning, in the Atlantic
Monthly.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1909-09-08
LETTUCE.

For succession of lettuce during
the hot weather SOW only the black
seeded varieties, which are heat re-
sisting. Lettuce is a shade loving
plant, and the best results will be OBJ
tanned by providing a shelter Of
cheese oth.-Indianapolis News.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1909-09-08
KAFIR-CORN CUTTER.

l.. A., of Grenola, Kan, writes that
a good kafir-corn header can be made
at a little expense out of two old
stalk cutter knives and few pieces
of lumber. This is used for heading
kafi-corn out of the shock. The lower
knife should be bolted in the pieces
of the frame, which should be notched
so the knife will fit in and form
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1909-09-08

There were fifteen executions OF
criminals in Prussia in 1907. all but
one OF them man.