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Devils Lake inter-ocean and Devils Lake free press. (Devils Lake, Ramsey County, N.D.) 1905-1909, 1909-07-30

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Devils Lake inter-ocean and Devils Lake free press. (Devils Lake, Ramsey County, N.D.) 1905-1909, 1909-07-30
1Es1

1 Miss Addie orrter of3 Devils Lake
came from Devils 81 Lake Monday
evening to- l assist her 5no other over
starkWeather Day lisss Grace No.
Namara returned from Devils Lake
Monday evening Boss
worth Of Dev Wis Lake is listing at the
home Of her daught ter, Mrs ID Bar
thold. Gibson formerly of
MELVILLE and Weaver, drove from Ore
lyon to the starkWea ther country In
nine He is glad TO get
back and thinks there is no place like
osth Dakot on last Sund a even
Ing about ten q clock a hail storm
passed mort of town doing consider
able damage where it struck. tt be-.
gan On The Mrs. Faulk farm, crossingt
the Deal and kennedy places and;
then hitting the u j D. and r. N. 4 Maur-s
$$Serss farms. The losses ranged from
% to per cent. SKennedy sus.:
staining the eaYiest loss. 7 NJ r..
1 Barthold visited with friends and srelas.
lives at Devils Lake Saturday and
Il sunda and Mrs i, p Maurer
returned from the coast Sunday where;
/ they have visited the expositio ion lat;
Seattle and other p Din ts sof interest.
Stark eather 4 Zines. s5ssss5
10 sooner had Emil s Eich retired
from the office Of county auditor than
he at once moved his family to his
large farm in Cato township. and has
turned into . full dged farmer, and
.t5he Is making good. We cannot help
but admire Al man OF Mr.. Eich s cali
& bre. He held Office for a long time
h but Whenahe quit he did not lay around
and walt for Aanot her POLITICAL job to
bob up hut started right. in to some
\: thing else and when he opened alarge
D y farm he tackled no small Job: But, as
Il we said before, he is making good
" Miss Inez Kelly returned yesterday
4 afternoo On from Chautauqua where she
B has been spending the past two weeks.
Last week a deal was closed where
i the big farm known as the Honey
II farm, lying southwest Of EdmoreH and
containing 1000 acres was sold to Far
80 parties We Understand that the
n price paid was $25l per acre Or $40
900 for the farm. 1T was one Of the
largest land deals for some time In
this section Of the state. 1900 acres Of
growing crop goes with the deal. ID.
more Herald.
Word was received here Sunday that
Theodore homps son and son ,Tillman
who reside on A farm near Esmond
were killed by ightnin g during the
thunder storm Saturday afternoon. Mr
hompson Is well known south 4 d
Ghurchs Ferry, having worked some
live years ago for Geo cDonell and
Anton Blegen, and about that ttiIae
was married to Miss Sarah Lundy
daughter of m !: and " rs: John Lundy
Mrs. Thomps was II IN Gull ertsoI
Mont, At the time Of he accid lent ant
was not unit II day that sht
could be located IL seems thai. Nj
Thompson and his son BY a formei
wife were caught out during the storm
and sought shelter in 4 netg hbor'
barn and Just as they entered tn
building the barn was struck killini
both of them and Is horse belonging i
4 The neighbo M e. Strand and fam
ily Visited Devils Lake and Chautau
qua saturday and sund ay They re
81 port very large crowds at this popula
B resort BY the inland sea. ~ b
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Wilson returned Mond to his studies
5at Devils Lake after an over Sunday
visit with his family III Churchs Ferry
Churchs Ferry Sun. ..ss
Nm: Hays and / wife returned Tues
day evening from Devils Lake where
they have been attending Chautauqua
the past ten days and enj lying camp
life Cando Herald.
4. q ss
Mrs, Warren spent
Sunday aat Devils Lake at the Chau-
.tauqua grounds Leeds News. a s 3ES
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1909-01-23

WOMEN I'VE PROPOSED TO
The Fashionable Widow.
By JAMES L. FORD.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS;

1t Is not until we reach the meri-
dian Of life and can look back in
philosophic mood at the pleasures, fol-
lies and ambitions Of youth that we
realize the part played by vanity in
those little comedies and dramas that
we thought at the time were purely
affairs Of the heart. I never doubted
for moment that my engagement to
the landlady's daughter was anything
but a love affair." but now know that
it was conceived in vanity and car
ried on through sheer self-conceit of
the very silliest sort. The fact that
my engagement to this estimable
young woman imperiled both her hap
piness and my own was nothing in
comparison with the qualification that
it caused me to think that I had cut
out the accomplished and graceful Mr..
Radcliff, and that I was an object of
genuine interest to every woman in
the house.
Feeling all this as keenly as I did,
was amazed when Mr.. Radcliff gave
up the idea of moving to Brooklyn
and continued to brave it out in his
$18 room, though heaven knows what
it must have cost him to see the land
ladys daughter and myself seated
side by side at every meal and to hear
my voice instead of his uplifted in
nightly song in the back parlor.
It may be that the tale that am
about to tell will seem too silly to be
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1909-01-23
A Game OF Billiards.

1t is said that Gustave Dore Flowed
Tangrams," and the father of, J. S..
Sargent John Singer of Philadelphia
compiled two books of designs that
have descended to Sam Lloyd, whose
mother was Mrs. Singers sister. One
wonders whether an early acquaint-
ance with Tangrams may not have
stimulated the imaginations of these
two distinguished artists and helped
them to develop sense Of design.
From the figures reproduced here it
is evident that many graceful and
striking artistic results may be had
from the Tangrams. Also that the
inventive faculties may be stimulated.
Take the two stories here given. The
first is: ''The House That Jack Built"
This is the cock (8) that crowed in
the morn that woke the priest (9) all
shaver and shorn, that married the
man all tattered and torn (1O), that
kissed the maiden all forlorn (1),
that MIXED the COW with the crum-
pied horn (12), that tossed the dog
13), that worried the cat ca, that
killed the rat (15) that ate the malt
16) that lay in the house 90 that
Jack built"
AS every picture is constructed with
the same seven pieces, they are neces-
sarily all of the same size as the COW,
and the malt is as big as the house
that contained it. But it is, of
course, always possible to correct this
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1909-01-23
PARTIALLY IN STATUES.

Bostonian Complains That Soldiers
Get More Than Their Share.
Under my window in Boston was
dedicated the other day. a statue of
Gen. Banks" writes Edwin D. Mead,
in Outlook. "Still nearer my. window
is the great equestrian of Gen. Hook
er, quite dwarfng the modest figures
of Daniel Webster and Horace Mann
further back in the state house yard.
Nov, I have very considerable
respect for Gen. Banks and Gen.
Hooker, but I cannot forget that there
is no statue in Boston of Emerson or
Lowell or Whittier or Longfellov,
whom there is vastly higher reason,
as there would be vastly greater bene-
fit, for Boston to honor.
There are statues of Gen. Glover
and Col. Cass, of whose services not
one reader in thousand could give
the slightest account, but there is no
memorial of John Adams or John
Quincy Adams, the two great Massa-
chusetts presidents of the United
States. -.
THE streets and squares of Wash.
lngton swarm with statues, but it is
no exaggeration to say that three.
quarters of them are of generals and
admirals, and even most Of these men
whom even the high school boys of
the city know but little.
There is next to nothing among
them to remind the visitor from Mars
or from Maryland that the nation of
Washington and Jefferson and Frank.
in-whose judgment of war and of
the proper prominence of the soldier
in their new republic is remembered
by some of us-ever produced a. poet
or historian, a scholar or teacher, a
painter or sculptor, a philosopher or
philanthropist, a statesman or man
Of science worthy of notice, or that up
to date it really honors enough to
spend any money to show it, any vo-
cation save the warriors. It is the
measure Of our barbarism." G.>.-~,>s-.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1909-01-23

worth the telling, and therefore I
plead in extenuation not only my ex-
IRENE youth, but also the inordinate
vanity which is the ruling passion Of
almost every young life.
A few days after my little affair of
vanity had eliminated in my engage.
ment the mother of my fiancee, feel
ing perhaps the reaction that follows
close on the heels of a long period of
strained anxiety, went away to pay
,restful visit, leaving the house in the
competent hands of her daughter, the
place next to mine falling to a new
boarder, the fashionable widow.
Il suppose you'll be flirting with her
next" said the landlady's daughter in
an arch whisper; and I swore that my
days of flirting-dangerous wretch
that I was!-were over for all time.
From the very first the new arrival
made favorable impression upon us
all. Vouched for by Mr. Radcliff, who
had introduced her into the house and
had known her for years as a. mem
Der of the New York aristocracy, it
was not long before even the dullest
OF us acknowledged her as the highest
authority at the table on all matters
connected with society. Very soon I
found myself taking a deep interest in
her conversation, which was Of a
light and cheerful nature, punctuated
with witty persifage and relating
chiefly to the engagements, weddings
and scandals of high life.
Now, it must be remembered that
at this time the -Four Hundred" had
not been discovered by Mr.. McAllister,
nor had society news assumed any,
thing like the proportions that it en-
joys in the journalism Of today. But
already begun to add its pungent zest
to boarding house conversations, and
the doings Of the upper ten," as we
naively termed those circles that are
now called Smart" or "swagger,"
were be coming more and mare inter-
esting every day. 4 -
I had never placed an exorbitant
valuation on my social connection,
which, such as it was, had been inner
tied rather than acquired. knew
few fashionable women, and these IA
vored me from time to time with
the madness for society chatter had
cards for receptions or musicales, but
it was not until my courtship of the
landlady's daughter that 1 fell into
the habit of sticking these in the
frame Of my mirror, where every
in the house could read them. The
affairs to which was asked were the
large ones to which woman invites
every one on her list, and as these
were even then quite, fully reported in
the newspapers they carried much
greater weight in the eyes of my fell
low boarders than invitations to those
small dinners which are reported, and
to which it is an honor to be hidden.
But soon learned that even the scant
apilitias that received were sufficient
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1909-01-23

whisky. The demand for exact def
nitions and descriptions has brought
out the fact that no living human be-
ing can tell what whisky is. Suppose
the whisky rules were applied to eli.
CARS and tobacco. What state of mind
would smokers be in if the tobacco
people were required to define .Ha.
vana cigars?" As it is, there exists a
strong belief among consumers that
Havana cigars are constructed of the
choicest Connecticut and Pennsylva-
mia stock, but if the manufacturers
were once forced to the admission
that they really don't know what Ha-
vana cigars are, the uncertainty
would be- distressing. Most of the
Havana cigars now sold are an awful
mystery. H..
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1909-01-23
How One Dog Rescued Another.

How One Dog Rescued Another.
An instance of a dogs devotion is
reported by M. K. Gleason of Warren.
Mr.. Gleason and others noted a big
shpeherd dog on the railroad bridge
over the Allegheny barking frantical-
~. The animal ran to them and then
back to one Of the center piers, where
it stopped and looked down.
Finally the men secured a ladder
and going out On the bridge Chamber
ed down and found fox terrier dog
that had fallen there. When the lit
tie dog was rescued the joy of the
shepherd was unbounded, and it mani
tested it's gratitude by jumping upon
the men and licking their hands.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1909-01-23
RUSH OF JEWISH BRIDES.
Their Fiances in America Sending for
Them-Six on One Ship,

Their Fiances in America Sending for
Them-six on One Ship.
There has been a considerable in
crease recently in the Jewish immigra-
ton, though for the most part ia has
been of families coming to join their
husbands and fathers already here.
But there has been also, according to
the American Hebrew, large influx
of girls, many of them coming at the
request of their frances.
The examinations in these cases are
very rigid, and many seek to fool the
immigration officers by posing as
brothers or as persons already mar
ried, so as to be discharged without
delay. Not that there is any purpose
of living as husband and wife without
formal marriage, but in order that the
bride may be delivered direct to the
intended husband.
There we're over half a dozen such
cases on the steamship Maine alone.
The girls were either required to have
relatives call for them or were taken
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1909-01-23

lovers, and seating himself in a chair
(35) at the inn called fora pipe (36)
and a mug Of good ale (37). When
the old man died, at a ripe age, Edwin
and Angelina set up tombstone (38)
in affectionate memory of him and
lived happily ever AFTER
Now, here is special puzzle. All
the pictures illustrating the preceding
story can be formed with the seven
tangrams, except one, which is quite
impossible. Can you find out which
one it is by building them all in
turn? Or can you make guess after
careful inspection?
BY using several sets Of tangrams
at the same time we may construct
more ambitious pictures. In "A
Game of Billiards. the players are
considering a very delicate stroke at
the top of the table. Of course, the
two men and the table are formed
from three sets of tangrams.
Finally, I give an example from the
many curious paradoxes that one hap
pens upon in manipulating tangrams.
I show designs of two dignified indi-
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1909-01-23
The Alternative.

A Philadelphia woman, whose given
name is Mary, as is also the name OF
her daughter, had recently engaged a
domestic when, to her embarrassment,
she discovered that the servants
name too was Mary. Whereupon
there ensued struggle to induce the
applicant to relinquish the idea that
she must be addressed by her Chris.
tian name. For some time she was
rigidly incorporating. Under the
circumstances" said the lady of the
house, there is nothing to do but to
follow the English custom and call
you by your last name. What is it?''
well, num-" answered the girl
obviously, "it's Darling"
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1909-01-23

that we should part and 20 our sepa-
rate ways. She had already started
on her separate way, as the letter
apprised me, in company with Mr..
Radcliff, whom she had married that
morning, and who had won her by his
constant devotion. She admitted that
as man of fashion he was inferior
to myself, and there was infinite con-
ISOLATION to me in this thought, but he
had proved himself true friend and
an ardent lover, and she felt that her
future was safe in his hands. In con-
clusion, she wished me every happi-
ness, and begged for forgiveness if her
words had. given me any pain.
why, what can be the matter?"
said the fashionable widow, dropping
into her accustomed place beside me
and looking at me with eyes of kindly
concern. T..
The sight of this woman, the sound
Of her'voice, the pressure of her hand,
famed my love, jealousy, vanity, rage
or whatever it was that was troubling
me into a fierce flame, and in the
heart of that fiery furnace Of af-
Fiction a sudden resolve was born
1t was quite early on Saturday aft
ernoon, and I knew that by dinner
time the boarding house would ring
with the news and that when I took
my accustomed place at the table it
would be not as the dashing and at
tractive young gentleman who had
been invited to two kettledrums and
an Eat home within the month, but
as an object of general contempt and
ridicule; for, after all there is moth
ing funnier to the world than a Tilted
lover. Most of all, dreaded the rath-
er coarse humor with whom I had not
taken the trouble to make myself
popular. To escape this flood of ridi-
cule-and vanity fears laughter more
than DEATH must do something that
would make people sit up and take
notice. There would be no laughter
could I enter the dining room with
the fashionable widow on my arm as
my afianced bride, and I turned to
her with a heart that was stirred by
every emotion that a dramatic school
teaches its pupils to express. Taking
her hand in mine, I poured out these
emotions in a flood that was like mol
ten lava.
my dear boy,'' she said, patting me
kindly on the knuckles with her dis
engaged hand, eff I had not known
that you were engaged I never would
have dreamed Of flirting with you.
Don't you know that I've got one hus-
band already, and between you and
me that's quite enough. I don't know
exactly where he S, but he's on
earth! You may depend on that"
I went upstairs and packed my
trunk. I simply could not bear to
face the dinner table that night Long
afterward I learned that the fashion
able widow was society reporter,
brought to the house by the astute
Radcliff, who had already discovered
my weakness, and who truly loved and
was loved by the landlady's daughter,
even if she had been Influenced for the
movement by such forces as maternal
authority, pique and a childlike belief
in the fashionable friends who never
sent me an invitation except when
they could not help it, and the wealthy
uncle who had not spoken to any of
our branch of the family for ten
years, and who eventually died unrec-
onciled and left his money to foreign
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1909-01-23
Hero of Forest Fire Retired,


"Jim" Root, oldest engineer on the
Northern Pacific railway system, has
been laid off, but, although he has
ceased to work, he will continue to
draw his pay as if he was running an
engine. He is now 70 years old.
Root won fame for his heroic deed
in saving the passengers on his train
from being roasted alive when they
were caught at Hinckley, Wis, in a
forest fire five years ago. He was
running train between Duluth and
st. Paul. He ran his engine to Heck.
ley, which was found to be in ashes.
Suddenly the wind famed the forest
fires and the train was surrounded
by flames. Root stuck to his throttle
while the fireman dipped water from
the engines tank and threw it on him
and on the cab to- keep them from
burning.
The smoke was suffocating and the
heat terrific, but the members of the
crew stayed at their posts until the
train reached Skunk creek, where all
escaped to the water and were saved.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1909-01-23

"sS JoOt JTOM: need further eX
PLANTATION. Every design Except one)
in this article is built up from seven
pieces of blackened cardboard, in
Guiding every one of the letters in the
title. It will at once be understood
that the possible combintions are in
finite.
1t is probable that Tangrams were
originally designed not as a pastime,
but as a means Of instruction, though
how they were exactly employed is
not now known. Prof. Max Mueller
said that "the science of Tangrams
gives evidence of higher state of
civilization than now exists in China"
Prof. Challenor records that there
were originally seven books of Tan
grams, compiled in China 1000 years
before the Christian era. These books
are so rare, writes Henry E. Dudeney
in the Christmas number of the
Strand Magazine, that after forty
years. residence in the country, he
only succeeded in seeing perfect
copies of the first and seventh VOL
umes, with fragments Of the second.
Portions of one of the books, printed
in gold leaf upon parchment, were
found in Picking by an English soldier,
and sold for 300 pounds.
A few years ago little book came
into my possession, from the library
of the late Lewis Carroll, entitled
"The Fashionable Chinese Puzzle" 1t
contains 1928 Tangram designs, mostly
nondescript geometrical figures, to be
constructed from the seven pieces. It
said: "This ingenious contrivance
has for some time past been the "a
vorite amusement Of the ex-Emperor
Napoleon, who, being now in a debili-
tated state and living very retired,
passes many hours day in thus ex-
ercising his patience and ingenuity"
The reader will find, as did the great
exile, that much amusement, not
wholly uninstructive, may be derived
from forming the designs of others.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1909-01-23

(25) on the an the Tdngrams.
vii (26), and soon married the
happy pair in the good old style.
When the father (27) found that his
daughter had fed he was in a great
rage. Calling for his horse (2S) and
his pistol (29), and putting on a heavy
coat over his shirt (30) and cap (31)
on his head, he started in hot pursuit,
soaring every chicken (32), goose (33)
and pig (S4) that he passed in his
mad flight. But he was too late, and,
like sensible man, forgave the
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1909-01-23
Troublesome Small Animals.

Farmers who live near the Blue
mountains, in Lehigh county, are
greatly bothered with foxes, minks
and weasels, and the farmers who
live along the lowlands have their
land spoiled by the muskrats and the
skunks. A crusade has been declared
against these animals, and the farm
ers expect to exterminate them by
trapping and shooting.
More than 1000 pelts have been
shipped from New Tripoli in a week,
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1909-01-23
What Counts in a Story.

As l heard famous raconteur tell
ing a story I had heard in one form
but recall the statement of some one
to the effect that there are but five
stories extant and that all we have
are merely variations from the origi.
nal five
AS Gen. Taylor, who is something of
story teller himself, puts it, 'The
story doesn't amount to anything. It's
the edition that counts
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1909-01-23
LEFT HANGING OVER RAvINE.

A recent cloudburst near Telluride,
Col, swept all the supporting work of
these, tracks away, leaving the rails
and ties suspended over a deep gulch.
Nearly 200 feet of track was thus left
suspended, and only the timely dis
covery of the washout prevented a
Denver & Rio Grande railroad train
from running into the gulch.- Popular
Mechanics.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1909-01-23

out by the Clara de Hirsch home,
which saw that those who were ready
and willing to marry at once did
so, or else they were found employ.
ment and will be befriended until they
are ready to be married, homes be-
ing found for them with respectable
families, preferably among the towns
people Of the alien.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1909-01-23


the rising sun and
the swan (23) sail
ed leisurely along,
they drove as if
for their lives to
Gretna Green. Hav-
ing safely arrived
there, the old
blacksmith (24)
placed his hammer
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1909-01-23
TANGRAMS ARE THE LATEST
Tales With Tangfams, New Pastme-Chnes2 Game That
Wal Afford Endless Amusement

by using sets of tangrams of varying
dimensions.
We will next attempt to produce
illustrations to simple story of Gret-
ma Green. .--.. ....
"Once upon a time Edwin (1S) and
his true love Angelina (19) decided to
elope and get married. So, having met
at 8 (20) o'clock on the bridge (21),
beneath which the fish (22) swan in
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1909-01-23

- Tangrams, recreation that appears
to be at least four thousand years old,
has apparently never been dormant,
and has not been altered or improved
upon" since the Chinaman Tan first