Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1893-02-03
Expatiates at Length on the Balmi
ness of Weather in North
Dakota,
And Naturally Touches Lightly o.
the All-Absorbiug Senatorial.
Question.
a Correspondent Steps to the Front
With Pithy Advice to Our
Lawmakers.
Fleeing Thoughts.

Fleeing Thoughts.
1t was a cold day, yesterday. This re-
mark is not made for the information of
people who resided III the city during the
day, but is intended for those who will
arrive on the train this morning, and also
Tor the benefit OF those persons who con-
template coming here from Florida to spend
the winter. 1t is too bad that the weather
should have turned cold so suddenly.
Many early varieties of roses were quite
badly frosted, and the senatorial crop two
years hence will be very light, it having
been severely nipped by the frost.
After having laughed at the residents of
the elfese east, as they writhed and
struggled in the. throes of many angry
bl'zzards, the laugh is now the other way.
"A great many people who have been en-
tlced TO his state from Mexico and other
torrid climates, to spend the winter in the
balmy air OF the Missouri slope, are going
home dissatisfied. More of them will leave
as soon as they become thawe ed out.
They feel hurt to think that
they have been so deceived.
l talked to one of them for a short time
last evening as he waited for the train to
come and bear him swiftly and noiselessly
away. lie was a nervous looking gentle
man, and he toyed all the time with a cigar
box which he carried under his arm, and
which, he informed me in broken accents,
contained his winter wardrobe. Eyes. I
am leaving North Dakota for good,'' he
said in piteous tones, as the cold, bleak
wind from the northeast tossed and disar-
ranged his curling locks and the swirling
and down his dOrsal vertebrp. 81 did
! not intend to go so so0n." he continued, "but
l cannot stand the cold winds and the cold.
hard hearts of the people who live here. |
was sleeping in a hotel in the city," he
went on sadly, "and l frOze my hand while
searching in a coal stove for the nice,
warm fire which the proprietor told me
was there. 1t was too, too muci."
us your hand very painful 2" l queried
III my captivating way. as l removed his
sealSkin glove and placed itin nv over
coat pocket, talking volubly with him all
the While.
Yves, it is quite painful" he ans wered.
5 much SO that l can hardly beaf it,"
l then told him, in my happy way. that
it was always disagreeable to have to bare
a frozen member, and the full completeness
OF my little joke broke in upon his be-
numDed comprehension, he laughed hys
terlcatly. and l left him in a much more
pleasant frame OF mind than he had been
for some time. | also succeeded in dis
tracing his memory from the sealskin
glove, when l still possess, and thus we
were each benefited by our acquaintance
with each other.
The lawmakers of the state of North Da-
| k0ta are a very witty set, and are much
given to joking. In the light of the manner
in which they are voting for a senator, this
remark may seem unn ceSSary, but ,t is
, made as All introduction to what is to
follow. There were several of them sitting
in one corner of a hotel yesterday after.
noon making senators and talking about
harmony SO pathetical]y that l almost
wept when the door opened and a repre-
sentative who had been outside battling
with the airy-falry snowfiakes stepped III.
After he had removed his coat and spit
up a quart or more of snow and ice which
he had inhaled when outside, he began:
"1cs a sort of all ice day." he ventured, a
little doubtfully, l thought, as though he
feared personal violence.
II suppose you think that's funny, but
it snow joke" grnwled a tall man who sat
in enc corner and nursed a frozen nose.
was a little afrigid yet angry when l
allV. tbut | wasn't Snra weather von'6 -,
.S(Ih. come nffv exnost"Io,oI y"u tn;rd.
"we'd ali hail a warm dav With daiirb ''n y
eyes. e%snecialiv If If would raiIn for
I did moi war tn hear anv moro T on
natnraIiv of a rather mar ~ny "GdG;. snos anl
ANYWAY. and i faarad ~ rama;n I6pSa. ~
r wintSrwov W"n u,h ~ ,";f; ,uHSes, ~
cr"ai ;nuos o,d u soam "Hv VIII ,naHe s.cn
the great danger in which they stand, are
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st natOr.