Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1893-10-13
CY WARMAN.

oPAIeu ny VIC SuperD scenery OF LQdt STATE.
He was born in southern Illinois, his faith.
er's farm being a homestead which the
elder Warman had taken up after his sery-
ice in the Mexican war. There in his
childhood he lived amid those rude sur.
roundings which characterized the early
settlers of the far west. There was not
much chance for culture, but there was
such freedom as developed rather than
dwarfed originality of mind.
When a lad, Warman attended a log
schoolhouse wherein the seats were made
of split slabs and the desks fashioned from
the same stuff, and it was while he was a
little fellow that he surprised his teacher
and his mates by reading an original poem
which he called "The Last Day of School,
Young Warman was bred for a farmer, and
when he was just about of age, havingsave
$1,000, he was tempted into the field Of
speculation and had dreams of becoming
an operator in wheat. An experience OF
two weeks shattered the ambition and dis.
sipated his fortune, and then he turned his
face to the west. In Colorado, first as a
workman in the smelter works and after.
ward in the railway shops at Salida, he
spent some years, and having been fascl'
mated by what he had seen of the life OF Il
locomotive engineer he served for a time
as fireman and afterward became an en-
gineer upon the Denver and Rio Grande
railroad. his run being for the greater part
through the most majestic region of Colo
RADIO.
Very evere exposure brought on an at
tack of sciatic rheumatism, which COM
PEELED Mr.. Warman to give up his voca'
ton, and perhaps partly to that we owe
this promising force in later American lit
erature. He had, while running his en-,
CINE, written a poem which was published
in an engineers newspaper called Inc
Double Header, and which was widely cop
led. He went into journalism, publishing
a railway paper called The Frog, and after
ward a daily paper at Creede-the Creeae
Chronicle-in which he is now interested.
One of the poems which was very widely
copied appeared in that paper, one stanza
OF which is as follows:
While the world is filled with sorrow,
And hearts must break and bleed,
It's day all day in the daytime
There is no night in Creole.
Another poem widely copied was written
upon the occasion of his first visit to New
York and was suggested by an incldenO
which he saw near DelmonicO's famous
place:
All q and thick the thistles stand
10 choke the springing corn.
Vice plucks the rose with Redeemed hana'
While virtue gets the thorn.
he had seen two tired out shOpgirls wan.
Ing home to save cur fare while Il woman
splendidly dressed, but whose appearance
suggested a life of evil associations, pi'sseu
them upon the sidewalk and entered '1ca!,
rage, whose coachmnn and driver were ~
livery, and drove away.
One of his poems is as refreshing rs"
mountain flower, II stanza of which reau''
God is good to make the mountains.
The valleys and the hills,
Put the rose upon the cactus,
And tho ripple Oh the rills.
Mr.. Warman wrote one poem wiich It.
now, it is safe to say, familiar to 't''uo, s
every railway engineer in the land o'
stanza of which is as follows:
'Twould DO sweet to know when wo'rc i"""
rest, .,
With our hands folded silently over our plen''
year, IS.
Bringing wrcnths Of flowers-that u wolh""
tears ,,so
Would dampcn the dust on the graves OF tn "S
Who have lived aud died In their overclo'"."
T.. j. EDWARDS