Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1909-1915, 1914-01-09

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be app erciated until it was reducedto
"a uestion Of cold cash! Then he 4
could grasp and understand it, TOD.
But then he was a s. practical man who
could figure out to q cent what those
grand trees around us would bring i,l-5
to his Golfers If he could but reduce
them to shingles and match-wood and
p don't doubt but that he would have
been glad of "a chance to bottle the
Ny ssissippi and sell the water ait So
much a quart Ito "a world dying Of
thirst. Poor, blind, practical man
OF affai rs, who never has time /, to-
dream the ros y-hued dreams of love
and life, whose only question Is: 81 s.tSyvill
It pay? Viii. it give return In cash
Whose onl music is the sc1ink Of
lcoin on coin al d the l,ltsEl ssof5 green
backs. YOU rest any more easy
in your deep grave to know that 5sits
Twill buy you a splendi d mt Iument ant
your relatives will squabble over ne
rest? 5at{
the days Of dreams and romance
are past, are they And 81 dream ers:
never do: things neye lin fact, amount
to anything ?sSs5NSsho was 1T that died
1.-THE death Of a hero down there at the
frozen South Pole while all the world
STOOD uncovered at the Jews ?, + It was
la dreamer a man with a. vision.
Another cam eli. dreamed his
| dream the steam CINE with its
train Of cars rush day and mig 1lt 81.
bands Of steel engirdling the earth. A:
dream onlyth then days an d: weeks
and months Of & heaving 5Ss waters, "a
light and "a new world rose out Of
the Western sea, %
I a poor icobbIer, evid emily OF ma
4 practical man, * for he was iihprison-
Led for debt, had this dream in the.
dark cell, - bur the 8 Pill grims Pro-
gress' was: written! Another dream
the telephone, the telegraph, the
iocean cable. And still anoth a t
the click of the wireless call for help
A a dozen liners shift their course AMI
steam madly to the rescue of a sink
ing ;Sor burning ship! A barefoot boy
lin the backWoods shanty lay. before
/ the open fireplace with his spelling
book before him; HE dreamed of MAX.
ling his life useful to somebody some
!! day and jas the; great Emancipator
The struck off the shackles of millions
4 Of slaves! #5 .;i
1 Who is it ights the battles for the
poor, the helpless, the forgotten, the
5Isocial outcast? Is it the rich man, the
man of but practical ability, with his
i soul filled only with ,the lust Of gold 2
4 Sometimes, but is it not oftenest the
imam: with a vision, the dreamer who
4 does the things worth doing
no was that pra etical gathergold
1! who was making heaps of money when
i michael Angelo was seeing and cary
ling out angels in the marble black?
( ( Who was the John D. Something Or
I, other of England when Shakespeare
4 was writing his plays Who was the
4 Captain of Finance in Germany
when Luther lived and wrought anu
I wrote Who was the Wizard I'll
i Wall Street in sSWedan when King
Il Gust aYus Adolphus set sail to fight
\ and die for ruth and ci viii zation? No
4 one knows their names. But THEN
they were undo ubtedly acclaimed as
1.-THE GREATEST MEN OF, THE AGE,
d practical men who did GREAT
i Things. III ~ 81
4 4 What vii your practical ideas and
y genius give you if you have nothing
3 more "a row of city flats, maybe, and
& tenement houses where starving
3 thousands toll and sweat and babies
Idle gasping for a breath of Gods
q fresh air. pal atial house it may
a a give on with fine lawns, all fenced
! in and guarded that the gutter.waifs
!, Of the city may not tread upon its
sacred green Fine dinners it may
A give YOU. until a constant belly-ache
U makes you hate the sight Of food and
d you wish You were back in the old
! days when you lived on corn bread
I and 1nolasses and had the appetite 5oi
/ a young vol may also give yoil
the faWning flattery of IA lot Of poorer
RELATIVES who dali wonder il that
pain in your interior departm ent is
Il not getting little more acute.
q Dreamers never do things no,
amount to nything !? by dreams
come true, man !; mig htmares neYer.do.
4 Throw off the nj ghtmare, stop count
a Ing the nicklesy Mn your sleep lest
someone should have defraud ed you
Eof5 one Of them see and seize the real
4 tiles Of; life, the thingss worth while
4 the good, the true, the beautiful and
q the noble.
n Then you shall have lived
AN yEPoct Il.
1 It DIS quite generally conceded that