Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1907-02-12

known fact that the climate of the
Missouri Slope is the most salubrious
of any In the state, and there were
4 those among the eastern part Of the
state contingent who even ventured
to intimate that the said bad weather
was characteristic Of the breezy
times on the Slope. However, we
have at last come to our own and be-
fore they leave the other fellows will
wish they had chosen the Slope for
their abiding place. Sunday and
Monday the water ran in the streets
and gum boots were at a premium.
The backbone of the winter is broken,
the trains are coming along as they
should and life on the Slope will soon
become one long dream of tropical
! lovliness, when the lotus blossoms
may be plucked from the limpid
streams and the pomegranates and
oranges dangling from the over
burdened trees can be gathered by
merely reaching out the hand for
them.
Episcopal Church - Services in
Episcopal church: "Wednesday
at 1880 a. NJ, celebration Of the Holy
Communion, the biany, Penitential
| Office and short sermon.
The ceremony of sprinkling ashes
| upon the heads of the people, as they
came to the services on the first day
of Lent, must have been an impressive
| object lesson. The people were thus
taught their mortality. They must die
| and their bodies return to dust. They
were sinful, and all sinful enjoyments
were as unsatisfactory as if one ate
i ashes for bread
| They should repent of sins against
God and humble themselves in the
dust before him. sa5s .#s Ia.
| Although the actual ceremony of
sprinkling the ashes is no longer used
among us. the aim of the church is
! still to remind men of their mortality,
of the vanity of earthly things and of
the need of repentance and amend
ment of life.
We are hidden now to think espec-
/ tally of the sorrows of the Man of
Sorrows, of His fasting and tempta-
ton, of His contest with evil, of His
bearing the burden Of our sins and
offering Himself, the victim of human
guilt upon the cross.
A Lent well kept brings spiritual
blessings. We need its restraints
We need it's quiet and retirement.
We need all the helpful religious in
fiuences which come to us where this
season is observed:
Does Not Take Kindly to Placards
Jerry Bacon, ex-senator and the
popular boniface of the Hotel Dacotah
in Grand Forks, is in the city in vio-
lent juxtaposition to the bill making
hotel men show up in case they use
| impure foods and things like that.
1 Jerry says he don't use that kind Of
food in his hostelry If he knows it,
but he don't like the idea that anyone
should suppose that a hotel of the
high character of the Dacotah would
do it, therefore he is agin' the bill.
| Thinks His Section Is Maiigned-
Representative johnson feels that his
section Of the state has been done an
injustice in the matter of reports of
freezings and hardships anent the
recent cold spell and is of the opinion
someone : giving Ward county the
worst of it, Mr. johnson is probably
not aware that most of the reports
adverse to good conditions in that
section of the state came from his
own town Of Minot, at least that was
the date line on the kilograms. So
far as the Tribune is concerned 1t
pleads not guilty to publishing many
OF the items that were sent to it by
| the Associated Press and from other
sources believing that their publica-
ton could do the state at large no
good, and many of such kilograms
have gone into the waste basket un-
published. The late cold and snowy
spell was one of the worst the state
has ever known, but it is all over now
and all hands must get busy repairing
the damage done and begin boosting
good and hard. Mr.. Johnson is iusti-
fed in feeling hurt that his county
and section should be given such evil
prominence in the press dispatches
which have come from Washington and
elsewhere, for no part Of the state is
more fertile or growing more rapidly