Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-01-25
LISA VALUABLE WORK,
Posterity Receives a Treasure in the
Official Report of Attorney Gen
eral Standish.
Explicit and Elaborate Instructions
for steeplechasing the Festive
Blind Pig.
A Series of Rules which Must Be
Appreciated BY Any Ardent
Sportsman.
Outline of the Rules Prescribed with
Running Comments Upon the
Matter.
HQW to Catch PIGS

The populist administration of the
state Of North Dakota has come and
gone. For two years it's members have
frolicked about in the various depart.
ments of state. For two years have they
nibbled at the rich, green pasturage
whichthrived and grew ~luxuriant within
the enclosure of administration. For
two years have they quenched their sew
erel thirsts at the clear, cold, bubbling,
refreshing and generous springs of au-
thority, and satisfied their hunger at the
fruitful branches of the official plum
tree. For two years have they fitted
about in the robes of authority and the
purple of power, and at last they have
r%elinquished the insignia of rank and
vanished adown the spacious aisles and
corridors of time.
But they have erected monuments to
themselves for the sake of posterity, that
in future years the attention of men may
be recalled to the prestige and glory
which was once t~heirs-broad, white,
towering monuments which mark the
sites of their official birth, life and early
decease. Not upon tickle, unstable and
changing, shifting foundations of sand
have they reared the stones which are to
preserve their careers fresh and green in
the memories of those who come after
them. Not where they can be buffeted and
splashed by the waves of the sea, nor
strained and warped and twisted by the
force Of prairie zephyrs. But safe and
secure from the fury of the elements,
they have carved the records Of their Of
fetal careers, and ever he who runs may
read of the deeds of the populist officials
as they are inscribed ipdslibly and in
destructibility 10 thepr Mt ID records of
the various departments Of the state ad-
ministration.
The administration-again let it be said
is gone. It is gone in all the complete
ness and th%oroughness of the term. It is
gone with all the lurid, brilliant, distinct
and impressive goneness of an extracted
tooth or an amputated sore toe. But
in the ashes of its existence may be found
indestructible evidences of it's past pres
ence. In death it lives, and it's memory
is preserved in the records which it left
behind.
Perhaps in no department will the
memory of the administration be more
indelible than in that of the attorney
general. In every nook and Granny will
be encountered heeting visions of past
greatness. Inseparably entwlned with
the figures in the carpet, the flowers in
the wallpaper and the designs in the
frescoing are the traits and caprices and
fancies of the fertile genius of General
Standish. Impressive as a scarlet fever
flag, the report of the attorney general
for the past two years is perhaps the
browning effort Of the administration.
It is replete with an original style OF
knowledge-a veritable plum pudding
of legal wisdom and a repository of sage
advice. 1t is fearful and wonderful in
it's construction, and knotty problems
are handled with a reckless and fearless
sang froid which is overpowering. In.
tricate questions of law are upper.
Quilted and cross-countered and finally
put to sleep with an ability and
dauntless energy which Is sublime. Ad:
vice and information are dispensed with
lavish generosity and pour forth from
the fountain head with all the careless
extravaganza of a bursted water main.
Among other subjects which are treat.
ed in the report of the attorney general
is that of the still-hunting of blind pigs
There are subjects, tits true. of full as
great Importance and of equal worth
and merit. It is not a narrow, close.
bordered, ~fne.toothed report, which con.
fines itself to problems of law or ques.
tions Of practice. It is q broad-guaged,
stem-winding, self-action, hair trigeered,
ball bearing affair, in which the puzzled
social lion may seek the solution OF
some narrowing problem of ballroom
propriety, the perplexed agriculturalist
may delve for the most approved means
for the elimination of chinch bugs, and
the harassed Coxeyite may discover the
broad highway to the ease and comforts
of aff1uence. But the subject of blind.
pigs is treated with a verve, an energy
and a wide-awake perspicacity which is
all absorbing. It is treated with a broad
llberality, born only Of long experiences
and rules of practice for this engrossing
pursuit are so clearly and concisely epito-
mixed and SO ably and ~attractively ar
ranged as to commend themselves in
stantly to any ardent and whole-hearted
sportsman, who has ever participated in
the "Chassez Du Blind Pig"
It is not of the worm-eaten, cob
swebby, back-number treatises, which be-
gins with the unsatisfying suggestion:
"First catch your pig" Neither is it