Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-09-27
One on the Colonel,

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The travelling correspondent of "Elec-
tricity," a New York mechanical journal,
writes his paper as follows concerning a
North Dakota character:
zone of the celebrities I met in st.
Paul was Col. W. G. Plummer, whose
mellifuous voice has been heard in re-
publican conventions in state and pa
tional affairs for a quarter of a century.
Colonel Plummer left western Pennsyl-
vania about 1880, and, of course, made
his mark in the northwest. He has been
a politician and a rafting good news
paper man for 80 many years that no.
body remembers just how long. He is
taking a vacation this summer in St.
Paul, and constructing language which
he will hurl against his democratic op-
ponents in the D akotas next fall when
they venture to argue that the glorious
yield of crops has been caused by a
democratic administration. The %colonel's
title has been changed since his removal
to the west. In Pennsylvania he was
called "Parson" Plummer. One time,
when he was on the Titusville Herald, a
printer died, and, being a member of the
Typographical Union and a communi-
cant in the Roman Catholic church, his
priest refused to perform the burial SER
vice. Plummer volunteered to take the
place Of the clergyman. T recalled this
incident to him, and he laughed heartily
as he recalled that, after %exhausting all
his %oratorical abilities to strike a sym
pathetic chord in the audience at the
funeral, he was likely to fail entirely.
But when the coffin was being lowered
into the grave he said in sympathetic
tones, "Poor Jim Brady, he will never
set any more bourgeois at thirty cents a
Thousand" At this the widow shed tears,
and the assembled printers joined in the
general chorus of grief"
,.n Environment.
Since the PRONUNCIATION of the D arwin
ian theories, and their acceptance - to
a greater or less degree-by the scientists
OF this generation, it has been generally
recognized that the environment (sur-
roundings) of a nation OF race, like that
of an individual, may have much to do
with it's place in the world and may deter
minet the question of it's survival. Among
these surroundings may be considered
not only the ability of the country to
produce ~sustenance for it's inhabitants,
but also it's topography and climate. It
may be stated, without fear of much
dispute, that the Aryan nations are (and
have been) the dominating element in
the world, and that their origin, as we'll
as their present habitat, is in the north
ern temperate zone. Foremost in COM
merce, in arts and in war, have always
been these people of the temperate zone.
To be capable of the highest success,
see that your climatic environment is
right. In our own country, the states of
Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa,
Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, South Da-
kota, Colorado, Wyoming and Montana
form a section where the environment
is favorable to health, energy and the
gaining of wealth. The conditions in
any of these states may be investigated
by travelling YER them, and this will be
best done by making your journey always
on the trains OF the Burlington route.
For maps, tickets, rates, etc., address
any agent, or w. J. G. Kenyon, general
passenger agent, st. Paul, MINI.
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