Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-05-03
and RICE IS dead.
Rice the Hackman Answers the CALI
Of the Destroyer Early
Monday Morning.
A Conspicuous One Of the City's
Characters, Well Known to
Everyone Here.
Various lens Of Local News Picked
Up. In and About the
Capital City.
Rice Is Dead.

One OF the most conspicuous charac-
ters in the social makeup of the capital
city passed out of existence at 4 o'clock
am. Monday, in the person of "Fatty's
Rlce, the hack-driver. For years he has:
been an indispensable adjunct to the
comfort of the travelling public. In rain
or shine, and heat or cold, he has Piled
his avocation along the streets, and
transported his patrons from place to.
place with all the dispatch possible, &C.
cording to the abilities of the horses he.
drove upon different OCCASIONS. He was
known to perhaps every man, woman
and child in the city, and had also a
large acquaintance throughout the state.
many of whose prominent citizens he
numbered among his regular patrons,
upon their occasional visits to the CITY.
On sunshiny days, he sat upon his box,
at some convenient street corner, and
while his horses dozed, with dropping
heads, he watched a down the thorough.
fare for prospective passengers. And
then, at length, discouraged at the lull
n business, he stepped down from his.
seat, and went inside his vehicle and
closed the door. And there he sat and
slept, until some rattling of the door ap-
prised him of the fare awaiting him..
And although, in the past few years he.
became the object Of numerous practical
jokes and the butt of considerable laugh
ter and ridicule, yet there was, all the.
time, a sort of undercurrent of misfor-
June in the macs life which, added to.
by his own weaknesses and appetites,.
brought him down to a level from which,,
he said himself, death alone could re-.
move him. A term of Imprisonment some,
years ago, because of some trouble with
his employers property, and then re-
lease, with the faint of dishonor and dis
grace, despair, dependency, drink and
death-a natural and inevitable stairway
OF causes to a series of sorrowful and
pitiful effects. His cultivation Of an ap-
petite for drink, as the one pleasure of
his life, led to the beginning of the ends
last Saturday, when he was taken With
the mental madness which inevitably
ensues from continued excesses. And
this morning came the end.
OF the dead, nothing but good. Alone,
in the world, without a relative or friend,
dead to ambition, and with not a hope to,
cheer the present or light up the path
way of the future, Death was perhaps.
merciful IN it's calling of him. And none
is there,who will grudge him in death a.
kind word and a fash Of the sympathy.
to which, in life, he was a stranger
through his own weakness.
You Don't Have to Swear Off,
Says the st. Louis Journal of Agricul-
ture, in ar editorial about No-To-Bac.
the famous tobacco habit cure. "We:
know of many cases cured by No-To-Bac,
one, a prominent st. Louis architect.
smoked and chewed for twenty years:
two boxes cured him so that even the
smell Of tobacco makes him sick" No
Io-Bac sold and guaranteed by Lucas &
B~eardsiey. No cure no pay. Book free.
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Chicago.
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