Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1909-07-07
Certain About Il.

Once upon q time, not so long ago,
couple of cowpunchers found them
selves guests In the home Of minister
Of the gospel whose custom was to
hold family worship Of morning and
to conclude the same by asking each
one present to give some quotation
from the Scriptures. One after an
other repeated some text until at last
it came the turn Of Jim Bulstoke Of
the Crowfoot ranch: -
my dear young friend" said the
dominic as he saw the latter hesitat-
ing, ''surely can recall some verse
from the Bible?''
Jim's face was bathed with profuse
perspiration, but at last there came to
him some approximation of a memory
of something he had read or heard at
some stage of his life about the first
chapter of Genesis. At last he broke
out, "God made the world .-..., -
The dominic lifted a hand to hide q
sudden smile, but bowed to Jim's
neighbor in the circle. Curley was
even worse off than Jim had been and
for the life Of him could not think Of
anything. At last, remembering the
occasional virtue of good bluff, he
twisted one foot around his chair leg
and, with all the confidence he could
muster, remarked, "He shore did,
Recreation.
Kept His Feet Dry.
Extraordinary conduct on the part of
two men upon seeing the body of
woman in the water was disclosed at
an inquest held at the Victory inn, on
the Hogs Back, Surrey. A farm labor
er named Sidney Smith missed his
mother one morning and on searching
found her lying face upward In a road
side pond. He ran of, and another Ia
borer named Matthew'S, who passed
the pond, also ran away, neither max
ing any effort to pull her out. Mat
thews told the coroner he did not do
SO, as he did not know If he would be
doing right.
The Coroner-The poor creature
might have not been dead at that time.
You could easily have got her out, I
suppose?
II should have had to go up to my
knees In the water."-London Mail.
Whers She Got tho Money.
They were at the circus. The CONVEX
sation ran to the subject Of how they
had financed their admission ticket
projects. One said she had gathered
rags and sold them. Another had help
ed her brother spade garden. The
third member Of the party presented
a sickly grin and seemed reluctant
about explaining where her half dollar
came from. An explanation seemed
absolutely necessary.
"Lizzie, whah yo' git dat half dol.
Lab 70 tipped up to de ticket manT
''Nevah yo' mind. Yo' all saw me
pay de man, didn't yoT'
"Sho 'nuf we did. but dat ain no
explanation"
'weI, / got de money all right"
''Sho' nuf 70 did. sho' nuf 20 did,"
Eyes, an ct I doan' git a half dollah
somewhat an git my ole mans Sab.
bath shoes from dat pawnshop befo'
Satahday evenin' I'm d deevo'ced
woman, OATS al1."-Indianapolis News.
NY Is. . oeidsN Horssshess.
Roman writers inform rs that Com
nnodus caused the hoo1s of His horse to
be gilded. Nero when be undertook
short journeys was always drawn by
mules that had silver shoes, and those
OF his wife, Poppaea, had shoes Of
gold. From passage In "Dio Cassius"
there Is reason to think that the upper
part only was formed OF those noble
metals or that they were perhaps plat
ed out Of thin slips. When Boniface,
marquis Of Tuscany, one Of the richest
princes Of his time. went to Beatrix,
about the year 1888. his whole train
WINS so magnifc Gently decorated that
HIS horses were shod with silver. The
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