Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1890-02-21
A TRIP TO THE CAPITAL.

A TRIP TO 'EHE CAPITAL.
Last week the editor made trip to the
metropolis Of the Missouri Slope and the
capital of North Dakota, and stald there
longer than at any previous single visit
since 1884 By keeping both eyes open
he was enabled to learn some things he
wot not of before, and he now as In duty
bound places his experiences and conclu-
slons before his readers.
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1t is certain that man will, under
changed surroundings, gradually make
his habits and feelings conform to such
change. This, we are forced to believe
from the fact that. though for many
years an urban resident, the editor has,
through several seasons of communion
with the meek-eyed jackrabblt the unas.
suming flicker-tail, the melodious coyote,
and the kindred beauties of nature found
in this railroadless region, come to be
thoroughly bucolic IN taste and action.
And, when one finds himself looking
at the 'keers' with awe, the electric
light with wonder, and the shop windows
with bewilderment, and finds the side-
walks less agreeable to his pedestrian ef-
forts than the buffalo. trails, 1t is time
that he confess the fact. City life hath
lost its charms.
While the Bismarck of to-day is not
that of 'o3, it seems to the writer that IN
many ways the city is in a more normal
and healthy condition. During the boom,
business enterprises largely in excess OF
the ability of the tributary country to
support were launched and the competi.
ton was excessive. But each succeeding
year has thinned their numbers until now
the stores, hotels ETC., more nearly corre-
spond with the settlement of the territory
within trading distance Of the capital,
and there seems to be more settled,
come-to-stay appearance everywhere Wis.,
ible. We were glad to note the fact tha,
almost without exception the business
men now there were among those who
came years ago, and who have bravely
wlthstood the vicissltudes which slow set.
tlement of the surrounding country and
frequent short crops have compelled them
to meet. One and all had Kind and hope
full words for Emmons county and praise
of her citizens and her soil.
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And the charity ball7 What of that3
Was 1t a success7 If enchanting music,
bright lights, numbers and liberal receipts
constitute success, then indeed was il
eucctssful. But we doubt if there is the
real enjoyment at such gatherings that is
found where friends and neighbors NEE,
at the village hall or the country school.
house.
Some Of the ladies--not man,--were in
decollete dress, and 1t was noted that III
most instances the good looks of such
were IN an inverse ratio to The lowness oi
their cosage. We noticed the governor
standing near II fine-looking lady just AZ
she came from the waltz. She weighed at
least two fifty; she sportcd a low neck
dress and on her bare right arm a vaccine
mark the size of dime. She was pant.
ing and putting like a porpoise. And the
thought came to us, gentle reader that if
John Miller and our callow chief Justice
would directa conjoint bull against micro.
scepic corsage they would do the state
more service than by issuing dclirium-
tEemens pronunciamentoes against lotter-
les to buy seed wheat 1t is "the style" /"
of course but it is a nasty, disgusting
style, and it is to be hoped that our chilly
winter weather and the good sense of the
mothers, wives and daughters Of North
Dakota will prevent the frequent appear
ance Of half-dresscd women in public.
Another thing. When E. A. Williams
drew his bill to prevent the exposure and
sale of the Police News and ether publ.
cations printing lewd pictures. why did
he not draft a clause or section proscrib
ing the appe arance of animated Police,
News pictures in our public ball rooms?
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A visit was made to both the senate and
house, and IN each tho members of our
first state Legislature were hard at work.
Probably no similar body under the old
territorial form of government had as
many representative men and heavy tax
payers. They cordially greet the citizens
of the various counties who visit the cap
ital. and seek to learn the needs and de.
sires of the people of the different lecali.
tiles. The majority are bright, active,
practical men.
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Messrs. Worst and Belden, of this dis
trict, are we'll liked by every one but the
sending of George Lilly to represent q
district with which he Is not in sympathy
was q grave mistake. His chief work 20
far has been the dulling of pair of scls.
sors in clipping the revised statutes of the
various states and arranging them into a
pot.pourri for introduction In the house.
If Lilly with his bills, like an Indian war.
rior with his scalps could point to them
as evidence of his prowess, then Indeed