Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1886-08-13
SAMUEL J. TILDEN.

s.5E.. .fy4s,5 SAMUEL J. TILDEN.
True to the end, to party and to land,
Thou stoedst above reproach, an honest man;
To younger men thine was helping hand; g
In wisdom's army thou vert in the van.
And vet, as evening shadows softly creep
Ger smiling fields, and sunny, gilded slope,
So, o'er thy life, the shades of sorrow, deep,
Crept, when they stole away thy fair, fond hope.
We look upon thy calm, but troubled face, -.
And read the bitter words imprinted there;
And in the burrows Of thy brow we trace
What thou didst think were hidden-grief and
Nor do we wonder, when thy inner life
Is seen-as mans should be, to know him
best,
That thy tired heart, aweary of the strife,
Healed up its wounds in sweet, eternal rest.
At last, great mind, thy freedom is secure
No more to smart meath doubt and CALLING
wrong; rs.s s,.
For, in that land, where every mind is pure,
Thou'lt find better, more congenial throng.
r.s.g,' STILL HERE.
"Whoop! Yi-hoo! Whoop ~ rang out on the
still night air. and the awakened slumberer rolled
over in bed.
''Whoop! Yi-whoop! Ki-yi! R-r-r-i-p p
yelled another Of the painters of the town, and
the wondering maiden sprang from her lace-en-
circled couch and the rustling of her fluffy gar
ments set the heart of the visiting young man in
the room below, adame.
''R-r-r-r-i-p! Whoop! Who-woo-woo-woop!r
came crashing through the trembling ether. and
the dog got up and shook away dull sleep to join
the chorus.
Papa" cried the bewildered maiden. as the
pattering of dainty feet were heard upon the
stairs. 4,'I thought the wild west show
went west with the circus.''
"Go-hic-to shleep, my zharling; 60 to-hic-
shleep,' replied her gay papa, as he staggered up
the front steps; "Zhircuses may-hic-come and
zhircuses may go, but the wild west we-hic-
have always with us-whoop!'' and down came
the bric-a-brac and the potato masher, the latter
in the hands of determined wife, who was the
acknowledged star of the wild west show during
the remainder of the performance.
1T WAS during DR.. Carver's Wild West exhibit
ton. The Indians and the stage driver and DR..
Carver had been shooting at each other at the
rate of fifty shots per minute for some time.
Thrice had the stage coach and the robbers gone
around the ring, and the antagonists were 30
near each other that the blaze from the rifles
scorched the sombreros of the fierce vaqueros.
Bang! bang bangity bang! went shot after shot,
and no one fell. 1t was now drawing to eli
max; it was about time that some of the Indians
were killed, but Carver and his men banged
away and not an Indian dropped. They were
sweeping around the corner with howl and yell
and fierce mad whoops when W. b. Bell, Bis
marck's champion sportsman. sprang from a re-
served seat into the ring and shouted "Give
me that rifle, Carver, you blank dash idiot, and
I'll kill the red devils before they make another
turn of the ring"'
THE stories about ruinous drouth in Kansas
are pronounced false, says an exchange. Ger
tainly they are false. They may have had a
drouth in Kansas, but we fail to see how drouth
can be ruinous unless there is something to ruin.
The only thing that Kansas has raised this year is
a callow, fuzzy base ball club, and that was ru-
ined by organization.
WE COULD not account for the number of
northwestern clothiers who have been going east
to select the Largest and most complete stocks
ever brought to the west, until we read the fol-
lowing item in the Pioneer Press: THE govern
ment will sell off q lot of misft marine clothing
at Brooklyn this week.
THE New York board of health dumped 5000
pounds of poor tea in the harbor the other day.
This accounts for the recent Improvement in the
New Orleans boarding house tea.
Ex-DELEGATE PETTIGREw says he has with
drawn from public life. If he had hustled around
among his constituents he might have known
this two years ago.