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Devils Lake inter-ocean and Devils Lake free press. (Devils Lake, Ramsey County, N.D.) 1905-1909, 1909-04-16
ROOSEVELT, THEfPATHENDER5

Is When history comes to sum up the!
natural material achievements Of
Theodore Roosevelt, as President of
the United States, possibly the reck-
oning, save for the navy and for
the Panama canal, will be scant But
later generations, we believe, VIII
never question the results, worked ont
by those after him, Of the program
of Roosevelt. the Pathfinder.
A great man, we have never failed
In the highest admiration for his DO.
litical genius. and varied vigors, his
uncomfortable courage admira-S
ton has never been lacking, though
we might be COMPOUNDED by some of
his feats. We cannot say that We: Re-
greet his going, for we have no doubt
that the work which now lies before
the chief magistrate OF the nation
would be better done by IA William
Howard Taft than a Theodore Roose-S
welt. Not for the reason that inspires
the rejoicing Of his enemies are We
content to see his successor take
the oath of office. But for what he
has done and what he has intended
to- do we are grateful to Theodore;
Roosevelt, the Pathfinde Ell, the most;
bitterly hated man BY the few, the
best loved BY the many, in the United.
States.-New York Press.
Devils Lake inter-ocean and Devils Lake free press. (Devils Lake, Ramsey County, N.D.) 1905-1909, 1909-04-16
THE CANAL AND TRADE,

Everything suggestive of the signif:
canoe of the Panama canal is of inter.
est nowadays. It is an outside esti,
mate that the ditch will cost third
OF billion dollars. The country has
somewhere from ten to fifteen billion
[ Of dollars invested in its railroads
and in the main the great lines run
east and west. =.
The traffic by the canal will prob
ably influence east and west freight in
this country more than any Other
Class; but north and south business
will be profoundly affected. The othel
Devils Lake inter-ocean and Devils Lake free press. (Devils Lake, Ramsey County, N.D.) 1905-1909, 1909-04-16

he ContT OlS s& The kn0Wn#factS
point to the con liulsion that liz i,as
reduced the anderbil It's ana the
Goulds to q state 81 ssYassalage I Ie
I has his transconti tai railway syss
TEN and must be recokonred 81 III IN
#eEeryls financial interest sWihic has its
center fnsWall street. But he Yields
to the reYitable. Ie Isl ov erta ken bv:
the Nemesis which, ever sincesth DAYS
vi SCION ana Croesus, has pursued and
caught tie men who succeed stoo wen.
William Nelson Cromw Eli, q the cunning
lawyer. with the instinct ;ofs il slave
told the stock hold ers 81 one 81 NJ i
Harrim;an,s corporat ons 49, that sl,e
III moved ii q higher sphere into which
Ne may not emit But he could rot
keep his footing In that higher sphere,
and he falls '1 under the weakness 81
ordinary men.
D Mr. Hartman & methods have been
syuccinctly describ bed: 81 s He gets CON oa1
troll NJ q rail- road. issues bonds On Il,
and with the proceeds buys another
railroad, On which he issues bonds,
with the proceeds 81 which he buys a
third railroad, and So Oh. I,o ordis
nary: mon there seems 5to be nothing
M; marvellous il such operations except
it, reckless disregard Of the primary.
IS principles 81 sane finance. There Ills
nothing il it which can be called char.
;aacteristic Of a .shigher sphere.
S53 Nevertheless, ii the opesrrat sof tie
railways which. he captures By these
methods, Mr.. Hartman shows unusual
regard for the, interest Of the public.
Devils Lake inter-ocean and Devils Lake free press. (Devils Lake, Ramsey County, N.D.) 1905-1909, 1909-04-16

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Devils Lake inter-ocean and Devils Lake free press. (Devils Lake, Ramsey County, N.D.) 1905-1909, 1909-04-16

students of raj lWay reform who main ]
tain that All effective rene Hes are
based upon these Two feature sS,
This appeals to common sense. So
long as railro Dads are permit ted 10 capi.
talize on the basis of earning city
In prosperous years Just 50 long specu-j
.lation VIII have NOR to 7do with their
operation than sound business prtns
ciples or the rights Of the shippers
Just SO long also will the revenue be,
retained from needed sbett erment and,
held il 4 surplus Il lon cutting.
ESQ 1he public has too much at stake
and lld too many rights involved to con
tinues the policy of merely using rail-.
ways to make mill ionaires They
sb9uld be placed and! remain on the.
basis Hof capita ,izat ion &c actual value
1 S, that their stocks ma slbe, a safe
Investment, free from lie hazard Or
manipula and wrecl ing.
PresId dent Taft also proposes q re:
organization Of the department OF
commerce and labor, the judiciary and
interstate commerce where they over
lap and conflict IN their authority and
Soperation In certain cases all have
been stimuli eously engaged in the
same Investigation along independent
lines and have chez kmated each
others efforts. q
at will be rem mbered that the meat
packers secured immunity because Of
Information given the department. of
commerce. All three were involved in
the Standard OH cases, dubling on
each other and piling up 1lnne cessary
expense. IN practically all rebate
cases the Interstate commerce com
mission and departme nt Of law cover.
much Of the same ground III their In
vestigation. 4 s555
The work Of these three depart
ments are to- be co-ordained and their.
lines Of independent Vestigationj
more p clearly defined. In making these
changes Mr.. Taft will not have to rely
upon his bordinates as to the legal.
phases except for consultation. His
experience Of years In active practice
and and the bench peculiarly fit him for
this s.sl most yexations problem. Duluth
News Tribune 1886 s9:5s s.*
Devils Lake inter-ocean and Devils Lake free press. (Devils Lake, Ramsey County, N.D.) 1905-1909, 1909-04-16

Sday Jan1es j. Dug ht Che Colorado
and southe raj III diates
SIN Their eater Export am ouneed that suIs,I
| 5tilmately he would cqtire Inc
the tie gull. TWENTY years agos stuyge-
SAINT Fish, then head of the ltnoisI
Central which had a line 80 the gulf
was almost the only sreat ilroad!!
man who Endorsed the canal project.
He pointed out that III would BRING
huge traffic to the gulf ports would
place the whole Mississipp alley
nearer rl, to the outside world han Az
had ever beer, and develop new lines
of trade which without the dit chs would
be impossib le. Ms s3s *.::s
1T; is plain now that the view Mr:
Fish entertained twenty yearss ago is
entertained today by many other rail-
road men. They are getting ready for
the new traffic adjustme nts which the
opening of the canal must iIlaligu rate.
The south will, benefit very largely
by the new .conditi lions. IT. will be-
placed upon trade routes which Will |lls
be Of. the first Importance instead So'f rs
being minor and insig nifcant as they
used to be. n ys;a
s The canal will need to be: prot ecteds
against the possibility Of undue i ~
duence by the established carrying IN IN
terests. It will be worthless II If does
not. provide competition and reguIassS
ton. # it is permitted twill provide
both these, will reduce rates, bring
new products into the markets, deYels3
op trade and produce the most ire
mendous results. It's completion u.s.
only few years ahead, and from this
time forth we will see from time to-
time evidences of adjustment to the
new conditions it viii inaugurate:
Grand Forks Times. S..sss
Devils Lake inter-ocean and Devils Lake free press. (Devils Lake, Ramsey County, N.D.) 1905-1909, 1909-04-16
APRIL Is, 1909. J.
AN IRISH QUESTION

Because Milt Crazy has awarded
Mike Noonan the belt for being the
best looking Irishman in Ramsey coun-
ty, Colonel Kelly and Sheriff Belford
threaten to raise row.-Journal.
In this connection we would like to
know where Peter Regain comes in.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-11-07
WONDERFUL NEW ZEALAND. Leads the World In Many Important
 Things.

From Putnam's Magazine.
 New Zealand's death rate is the low est in tho world. Her wealth. per cap ita, is the greatest in the world. Her wheat yield comes up to 60 bushels to the acre and oats up to 90 bushels. She has exported over $350, 900 have reached an annual output above $115, GOO, ,000. She has 4,000, ,000-horse power readily available for generating electricity, in natural waterpower. She has four cities of from GO, 900 to So.00o each and a lot of substantial provincial towns. Parenth etically. the cities are already beautiful garden cities, with parks and parkways, public buildings and private residences to teach older worlds valuable lessons. In the year ending with March, 1907, her exports amounted to s100.e0e.000. Agricultural and pastoral products took the lead $75, 5,0o0,00e; gold. coal and other min erals $12,000.0 .000; manufactures $5,000.- GOO; timber and forest products $4,000,- 900; fisheries, etc, filling out the court. Her imports for the year amounted to S73. 3.000,0 900; giving a commerce of $123,- 0oo,000, of wh ich America had but 8 miserable pittance and none of the transportation, owing largely to the en- ergy with which our government which Is not paternal-has rendered our merchant marine ob solete and practt- cauy impossible. Incidentally, and as a good concluding bit of statistics, the surplus in government revenue over expenditures, for the year 1906, was close to $4,000o o0G, where we had a substantial deficit.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-11-07
"QUO VADIS.
6ienklewicz Tells How He Came to
 Write His Famous Novel.

From the New York American.
 Venice-Henry Sienkiewiez, the Polish novelist of "Qou vadis" fame. is now sojourning here. as has been his custom for 10 summers past. Although s years old, he IS still hale and forid, and his eyes sparkle with boy-like yiyacity from beneath his black-bound spectacles when he Is absorbed in conversation.
 He abhors smart society, though he frequently lunches and dimes with his high-spirted young daughter on the spa cious terrace of the big bathing pier. Most of his hours are spent at the Vil- limo Elena which he has rented, where he loves to gaze out over the Adriatic and to live a simple, quiet, patriarchal life among his books and papers.
 Sienkewiez recently tried his hand at a book on ''The Venice of the Doges, D but he has laid it aside because he feels himself unequal to grappling with the peculiar strangeness and eomplexity of Venetian history. Sienkiewicz reads Italian easily. does not hesitate to laud D'Annunzio as the finest literary genius modern Italy has produced, and "Citta Morta" as the greatest Of his writings.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-11-07

Speaking of his own masterpiece, sien- kiewicz said:
 My inspirations for Quo Vadis' that early and most popular of all my produc- tions, had their source in my study of three famous masterpieces. First of all, in the works of Tacitus, with whom of all the Latin classics I am best ac- ouainted. Then I was deeply influenced by Chateaubriand's Genie du Christian isme,' especially by what he has written about the early Christian martyrs. But owe most of all to the English Cardinal Wiseman's 'Fabiola The Church of the Catacombs,' an able and picturesque story which exercised over me a powerful fas- cination from dawning boyhood."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-11-07
Mind Over Matter.
om Success Magazine.

From Success Magazine.
 Much may be done," said the Acute Observer, "by an authoritative voice. Now. if man says to a dog, Come herei" with a note of absolute authori- ty In his voice. the dog comes imme- diately."
 Yes" said the Traveller, "rve noticed 1t. And 1t is especially marked in Orla ental peoples. Why. when I was Tn Khalisandjharo, I heard man say with tha at authoritative note in his tone oh. King, live forever and immediate ly the king lived forever"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-11-07
The Exception.

From Harper's Weekly.
 Their teacher had been telling the pu- pils of the Great Salt Lake in Utah, ''the water of which," she explained. Ifs so extremely salty that no fish can live in it."
 This statement proving too much for the credulity of Willie Parker, he rose with this question:
 Beg pardon, Miss South, but can't maclzerel live in it?'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-11-07
SEABOARD CHANGES
 SCHEDULE

On and after Sunday, Nov. 2, Seaboard trains will leave Bir- mingham 100 a.m., 700 am. and 3:30 pm.
 No. 50 leaving at 100 am. will carry a sleeper placed in station 9:00p. m. ready for oc- cupancy; arriving Atlanta 7:3O am. ready for breakfast and business.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-11-07

EnEE To show how quickly candsrins
 En6G acts, we will send large sam n.,, oie free bv return mail to anyone who -. sends this free coupon to the n", gN0WLToR DAHDERlEE CO.,, CHICAGO, ILL. with their name and address and loc
 in silver or stamps to pay postage.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1909-05-22
GRANT SIGNED.

General Grant has fitly been spok-
en- of as ian unaffected great soldier.
1t may have been the blending Of this
large mindedness and lack of affecta-
ton that inva riably made him so cour-
teously kind to any one who asked
hisassistance, so generousi in his praise
of an opponent, even when that oppo-
nent was fighting him to the death.
The following little story emphasizes
these qualities:
After the fall of Fort Donelson, to
prevent the needless violation of prop
erty by either the army or by camp
followers, projections were issued by
the United States government. To
Miss c., whose six brothers were
fighting in the Confederate army,
such a protection was granted. 1t
had been signed by all the command
ers of the post in turn-by Buell.,
Rosecrans, Scho6eld, Sheridan, Grain
ger aud many others-and the list
was long and impressive. At last it
became necessary for General Grants
signature to be added.
"When 1 entered the Office" says
Miss c., "the general was smoking,
his feet higher than his head. But
he seemed instantly to stand upright
before me, and his cigar was thrown
away In moment.
IT handed him my protection.
"'You have rather formidable
list of names, he said as he took it
from me.
"And l hope that you will add
yours to it and make it even more
formidable, l replied.
"For answer he sat down again,
ready to put his signature at the end
of the parchment, when he suddenly
stopped and looked at me.
"'For how long do you wish this
protection for your estate, Miss Z. Z
he asked.
"'Until the day of judgment, Cen
eral,' 1 answered boldly.
"Then he smiled that sweet, quiz
zical smile OF his that made so many
people, even when they were his ene-
mics, love him and said !:
"'My dear young lady, you have
great confidence in your armies ! But
with such courage and with such a
leader as General Lee I cannot won
DER Then, with great flourish, he
added the words, Till the day OF
Judgment, Ulysses S. Grant and
handed it back to me. - YOUTHS
C0nbnniOu.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1909-05-22

her. And after awhile Alice whis-
pered yes. We didn't go in again
right away but some man that had
the next dance came looking for Alice
and l had to let her go.
went in to watch her dance and
tried to make myself understand that
she was really my Alice now. When
we were on our way to supper we
passed close by Mrs. Grant, who is
the wife of the Judge, and easily the
most fashionable woman in the town,
and we heard her say to her friends,
isn't that girl in lowered silk too
charming :"
pressed Alice's hand again.
"Of course all sorts of lovely things
will happen tonight" she whispered
back to me. "This is my perfect
night, expect even fairy gifts" I
started a little at that, and when I
looked at her she was laughing. Wise
little Alice She knew all the time.
- Tie HouSe11te.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1909-05-22
MONEY OF THE RICH.

A great reservoir of water undis-
tributed leaves men and women to
perish of thirst and growing crops to
parch and die. So also vaults bulg-
ing with stagnant money leave men
and women to perish in abject power
ty and ripened crops to rot within the
fields and orchards that grew them.
Therefore what happens to the dollars
of the millionaire is question of the
first Importance.
Those of us who believe in praying
for material blessings will do we'll to
pray long and earnestly that rich wo-
men will never cease to buy 500 hats
and 81 900 gowns, with diamonds and
other jewels to match; that they will
continue to give balls and teas and en-
tertainments of the most expensive
kind that they will be recklessly ex-
travagant in gewgews and folderols
of every description, because it will
be good for us who depend upon an
income drawn from the multitude Of
operations involvedi in producing, mer-
chandising and transporting all those
gewgaws and other gimcracks that go
to keep extravaganza at high pitch.
Let us hope that rich mems sons
will continue to spend their fathers
money AS foolishly as they are reputed
to do-not because it will be good for
them, but because it will be good to
have the money poured into the wage
earner's money channels.
Let us doubly hope that the rich
men may be prospered in their money
getting, because they will not let It
lie idle. Whatever their wives and
children do not spend they put into
stocks and bonds and thereby turn it
into the wage earner's money chan
nels. Let us be thankful, too, that
neither the dollars of the rich nor the
dollars of the poor are any value save
as they go into the wage channels OF
active circulation.-F. w. HezOsS in
Haxper'S Weekly.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1909-05-22
EMPLOYER AND EMPLOYEE.

Employees often queer themselves
with their employers by a habit of
arguing with them. While your en-
ployer, if progressive, will be anxious
to get hints and suggestions, he does
not like to have about him employees
who always try to give the impression
that they know more about his busi-
ness than he does himself.
The average employer, even though
he may be wrong in his position, does
not like to be told of it or to he cor
rected by an employee; in other words,
the arguing employee is always dis
credited and makes an unfavorable
impression upon his employer, which
often overbalances a great deal of
ability.
If you wish to get on, try to make
your employer feel as comfortable as
possible. Do not cross him or argue
that thing should be done this way
or that way. Do it the way he tells
you to do it.
A great many employees are con.
stantly putting stumbling blocks in
their own way-tripping themselves
up by creating a prejudice against
themselves in their employers mind.
We often hear an employer say such
a person is able, but is disagreeable-
that he has unfortunate peculiarities,
or idiosyncrasies, or makes him feel
uncomfortable.
Make good. Make it rule, what
ever is given you to do, whatever re-
sponsibility is thrust upon you, to
make good. Do not leave things half
finished, or do them in slipshod,
slovenly manner. Build them to
complete finish put your trademark
upon whatever passes through your
hands, so that 1t will stand the test of
your employers scrutiny and increase
your own self-respect.
In spite of the fact that thousands
of employees are looking for positions,
on every hand we see employers look
Ing for somebody uUho can "deliver
the goods" salesman who will not
say that, if conditions were right, if
everything were favorable, if it were
not for the panic, he could sell the
goods. Everywhere employers are
looking for someone who can do
things, no matter what the conditions
may be.
I know two travelling statesmen who
90 out from different houses over sim
liar territory with the same line of
goods. One of them sells four or five
times as much goods in year as the
other. He always returns to his house
with big orders. Hegets very large
salary because of his ability to sell.
This man starts out with the expec.
tation to sell. The other man gets
very small salary, just barely enough
to enable him to hold on to his job,
because obstacles seem so great to
him. He returns oftener with ex-
cuses for not selling than with orders.
He does not have the ability to anni-
hilate difficulties, to overcome obsta-
cles, which the other man has. He
brings back to his house small orders,
because he cannot overcome the OBJ
jections of his, customers, cannot con-
vince them that they want what he
has to sell.
People who would do things in this
world must have the "get there" abil-
ity, the power to do what to others
seems imDossible,
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1909-05-22
THE BOY WITH THE FEET.

The boy in the car sat cuddled so
close to the woman in gray, says the
New York SMn, that everybody
thought he belonged to her, SO when
he unconsciously dug his muddy
shoes into the broadcloth skirt of his
left hand neighbor she leaned over
and said
Pardon, me, madam, will you
kindly make your little boy square
himself aroundl He is soiling my
skirt with his muddy Shoes
The woman in gray blushed little
and nudged the boy away.
"My boy" she said. "My good
ness, he isn't mine T.
The boy squirmed uneasily. He
was such little fellow that he could
not begin to touch his feet to the
floor, so he stuck them out straight
in front of him like pegs to hang
things on and looked at them depre-
catingly.
''I'm sorry 1 got your dress dirty"
he said to the woman on his left. II
hope it will brush off,"
The timidity in his voice took a
short cut to the woman's heart and
she smiled upon him kindly.
ooh, it doesn't matter" she said.
Then as his eyes were still fastened
upon hers, she added "Going up.
town ?"
eyes, ma am" he said, II always
go alone. There isn't anybody to
go with me. Fathers dead and
mothers dead. 1 live with Aunt
Clara over in Brooklyn, but she says
Aunt Anna ought to help do something
for me, so once or twice week when
she gets tired out and wants to go
some place to get rested up she packs
me off over here to stay with Aunt
Anna. I'm going up there now.
Sometimes I don't find Aunt Anna at
home, but 1 hope she will be home
today, because it looks like it is 60
ing to rain."
The woman felt something move
inside her throat and she said "You
are very little boy to be knocked
about in this way" rather unsteadily.
ooh, don't mind" he said. II
never get lost. But I get lonesome
sometimes on these long trips and
when 1 see anybody that think I'd
like to belong to scrooge up close
to her so that 1 can make believe 1
really am her little boy. This morn
ing l was playing that l belonged to
that lady on the other side of me, and
I got so int sted that forgot all about
my feet. That is why l got your
dress dirty"
The woman put her arm around
the tiny chap and "scrooged" him
up so close that she hurt him, and
every other woman who hadoverheard
his artless confidence looked as if she
would not only let him wipe his shoes
on her dress, but would feel like
spanking him if he didn't.