The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1910-07-29
Travellers Tales

Honest, Mabel" said the little blont
with the deep blue eyes as she engaged
one OF the other Mattresses at the bis
hotel IN conversation, ~ didn't thinl
NED throw fit or throw me down fol
sucn a little thing. Jack is q urleei
customer" said she as she gave he,
balloon shaped liveless rat a toss to.
ward the crown of her head, land n
al' came about this way. / told him
oldnt just propose to stick to hin,
and him alone. He's so Jealous. Won
Know, but then he didn't expect me Ia
go with anybody else. So one night
Wnsn he met me on Broadway +rifiinr
and looking into the eyes of a new one
VINO had me by the arm, he got white
IN the race and red about the giIls and
l could see that he was as mad aa a
Marcn hare. / was sorry the minute
l knew he caught me at my tricks. and
shook the other kid just as soon as
could and hurried to him and we
TOOK walk. Ho kidded me about the
other fellow, and / spanked I'D and
sald' oh, he's all right, believe me.
Jack looked wild eyed a minute and
said:
Everybody to his own taste. az the
monkey said when he kissed the Gov. ,
and he UP and kissed me. / thought
ne was trying to insinuate that was
COW, and the only thing said was that
maybe he was what he called himself
OUT l was no COW. And now We don't
speak. Gee! but I wish hadn't done
nothing" -~ -
one Of the men at the fair grounds
who is engaged in exhibiting wire
FENCES Is most entertaining taI1rer.
He comes from the western part OF
pennsylvania where wire making is
a big business, and he said that It
would be fine thing If the people OF
the west could see the many processes
that wire fence went shrough before
1t became what it was sold for. Said
he:
l have seen the raw material come
into our establishment and when the
work was concluded you have what we
are showing here today. The ore that
we get from the Lake Superior regions
looks just like so much dust, but it
Is very heavy. II 10 carried into great
Dig blast furnaces, where coke and
limestone Is used, and when next II
Teappears 1t is in the shape osrirnn pigs,
From there it goes to what Is called
the steel mill, made into biliets and
from there is sent to the bar mill,
where 1t is reduced into bars, and after
that 1t is sent to the rod mill, which
keeps on reducing 1t until it gets to
the thickness that you see II here
Some Of the machinery that Is used in
thus Transforming the pigs into bill
let's actually pick up the redhot metal
and handle 1t as a man would a brick.
They turn 1t about, shoot 1t into this
and that roll, and the great machinery
does everything but talk. After 1t has
been reduced to the proper thickness
the coils Of wire, or rods as they are
called, are sent to the fence making
department Of the wire works and
here by machinery they are converted
into the different designs that we have
on exhibition can remember when |
1t took scores Of hands to do what Is |
now done by two men and the macriin- |
cry. / suppose am a sort of a crank |
on this subject, but love to watch the |
work done and take pleasure in tell |
ing the people about 1t. Does II pay |
us to send these big exhibits about the |
country? Wen, can't say that 1t does |
in so many dollars and cents, but In |
the long run 1t does, for people see |
what we have and II they are wanting !
anything Of the kind they are sure to !!
buy our production"