Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1892-05-06

the good father pictured the happy
home-ruled by love and wherein con-
tentment and thrift reigned supreme,
presided owe by an affectionate, devoted
mother, with h family of confiding, de-
pendent, healthy little ones. Perhaps,
similar to the n so POLITICALLY de.
scribed by Beckerstedt, "A wreath of Sis
tiers, with brothers intertwined." OF
course, the father said all this was as it
should be, for does not the marriage
bind q man to Glove and provide for those
whom God has given them" What a
very great responsibility every one TAX
ing such a vow assumes? How earnestly
and sacredly should each one accept the
task, cultivatiug every desirable friend
every virtue that should tend towards it's
fulhllment, Avoiding, on the other hand
bad companions and the engendering of
the habits that lead towards incapacita-
ting n for the performance of their
sworn and sacred duty-sacred by divine
and human law.
After faithfully p%ortraying the ideal
man, the father in effect, he went on to
state what a great change took place
whom he yielded to one of the many
temptations placed In the way of the
weak; when he, for instance, allowed
himself to become a slave to the Internal
power of rum. Business was sooner or
later neglected; there was the vacant
chair at his own Preside with all it's ten
der, loving associations, left for one
where boon companions with similar
weaknesses c~ongregate; harsh words.
occasionally only ut frat, spoken at home,
when before only Loving enes were heard
from bad to worse, days by day, until
perhaps poverty pinches and burrows are
seen on the mothers brow, and pale
cheeks where roses bloomed before;
frightened, poorly clad children, when
but a short time before all was conf
dence and plenty. Every village in
christendom has living illustrations such
as this, of the curses that ~intoxication
entails, Do we heed the warning note?
The father went OH to describe the OK.
tretie folly Of a man, knowing lie Gould
not drink and not kst drunk; indulglng
in the habit. What q tsatful risk he
was taking. On the other hERd; if he
touched it not he incurred none; for
temperance INJURIES none and benefits ali;
while intemperance Injuries all and bene-
fits none. The two roads are before you.
"Be ye- temperate in all things"
River Items.
Stanton Pilot: The government boat
Josephine passed up the river yesterday.
This is the first boat up this season.
The steamer Bachelor went out this
morning, with a freight bill of over
$l,100. The Bachelor will return with
a cargo of hides.
Pierre Capital: The steamer Rosebud
left for Fort Yates yesterday afternoon,
ana will return the latter part of the
week. The Libbie Conger is now past
due, and may be expected any day from
the south.
Sioux City journal: Captain Powell,
of the river improvement service, thinks
that there is a possibility that the cur
rent of the river will turn away from
the Covington bank and strike the Sioux
City bank near the mouth Of the Floyd.
He does not think the gumbo bank there
will prove strong enough to resist the
current if it does, and would not be sur
prised to see the river cut in as badly in
that vicinity as it is now cutting on the
opposite shore.
Sioux City Journal: The river cur
rent is turning away from the
bank in Covington, and as a result
the encroachment on the town site
is ceasing. On the river front in the
north part Of the town a sandbar is
forming The current now strikes d.
rectly against the bank of the Stanton
townsite below Covington, and is eating
it away at a rapid rate. It is estimated
that thirty Covlngton lots, valued at
from $3.50 to $1,000, have been swallowed
up by the river this spring.
From Wednesdays Daily.1
The Supreme Court.
Promptly at 10 o'clock Tuesday
morning the May term of the state SUI
preme court was opened in their cham
bers at the capitol, all the judges and
officers being present. Quite a number
of cases were, by agreement Of counsel,
put over the term and will not be argued
until October at Grand Forks. The
entire morning session and a portion of