Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1906-12-17
LOUNSBERRY
THE GENIAL COLONEL WRITES
THE FORUM SOME INTEREST
''.ss ING COMMENTS. .>*@

BY the way, I notice there has been
a conviction in Burleigh county for
| blind plugging. "The world do move"
Way back in the dim and distant past
when was on earth, in previous ex-
istence, so to speak, Pittsburg stogas,
and drinks of every nature, sold over
the bar. used to be Is cents or two for
a quarter. made a break and sold
cigars at and 10 cents at the post
Office news stand. 1t did not add any
thing to my business success Or per-
sonal popularity, as the men interest
ed in the higher prices dominated
pretty nearly everything. The weather
was, hot; the air was dry, and there
was a gentleman that could not. I'M
derstand why beer could not be sold
at a profit of cents a glass. He
secured his license and opened up.
He was out for the liquor trade, had
no inclinations in that direction, but
I
be done and money made out of the
business by selling beer at S cents.
His career as saaoonkeeper was
short. They called a special meeting
of the board of county commissioners
and Cancelled his license on the
ground that he was not proper man
to sell Intoxicating liquors.
notice Farmer Wallace has been
lowering near deaths door. 1t was
Wallace at Mankato, MINI. He was
in the mercantile business then and
kept one of the neatest, cleanest and
brightest little grocery shops I ever
saw. He was immense on display
and kept first-dass goods and sold for
living prices. John was successful
and popular and his friends got him
to run for Office. He went in to
win and came out broke One day
some years afterwards I stood at the
general delivery window of the Bis
marck postoffice and Wallace called
for mail. I was mighty glad to seq
him. He was en- route with an OK
team with stma and the boys" going to
Montana. 7 induced him to stay.
He went on my farm, for that was
before a wave of prosperity rolled me
out of fortunes way, and he became
a North Dakota boomer. He never
did any man on earth harm. He has
suffered from the evil done by others,
but suffered without complaining.
His time, his best thought, his best
energies, have been put in for others
and for North Dakota.
And there are others. Others who
have left their mark on the early
pages of North Dakota history, who
are forgotten now, paodding on their
weary way, hoping, in many in
stances, for an early ending of life's
Journey, thinking of others till the
last, of themselves only to count the
days when it shall be ended.
Some years ago there was one of
my name, distant relative of our
family, brilliant lawyer, who passed
on to the eternal side of life leaving
a Twill" It was fled in Cook county
probate court and came up in the due
course of business. Among it's provis-
ions were these:
81 Charles Lounsberry, being of
sound and disposing mind and
memory, do hereby make and publish
this, my last will and testament, in
order as justly as may be to dis,
tribute my interest in the world and
among succeeding men. 49,:
THAT part of my interest which is
known in law and recognized in the
sheep-bound volumes as my property
being inconsiderable and of none &C
count, I make no disposition of in
this, my will. My right to live, being
but life estate, is not at my disposal:
but these things excepted, all else in
the world I now proceed to devise and
and beaueath.
/ Item: give to good fathers and
mothers in trust for their children all
good little words of praise and en-
couragement and all quaint pet names
and endearments, and I charge said
parents to use them just but generous
ly as the needs Of their children shall
require. ..,.:: 4. VI n. .#
Item: Il leave to children inclu
: siyely, but only for the term of Their
childhood, all and everyone OF the
flowers of the fields and the blossoms
4 of the woods, with the right to PLAY
. among them freely according to thu
Il custom OF children warning them al
I the same time, against thistles ant
thorns. And | devise to children tht
banks Of the brooks and the colder
4 sands beneath the waters thereof ant