Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1910-10-14

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City Republican. at my home. For
some time she has been much inter-
ested in the study Of spiritualism and
has produced many books along this
line Some of these are 'rhe Dream
Child, "Harmonics of Evolution,
THE Great Psychological Crime"
While in Bismarck, Stanley Huntley
conceived the idea of the Spoopen-
dyke papers which subsequently be-
came very popular and gave him a
national reputation as humorlst,
Those of you OF my age will remember
their vogue but to me an addltlonal
interest of no slight value was added
when | learned that the original or
Mr. Spoopendyke was our well known
Honorable Dennie Hannafin The cir
cumstances in life of Mr.. Spoopendyke
in no way parallel those of Mr.. Han
nafin. 1t is in the picturesque langu-
age and peculiar manner OF express
ion that the latter has been reproduce
ed in the papers of the former.
Mr.. Huntleys fame as a humorist
now being established, he was called
to the position of funny man on the
! Brooklyn Eagle where he further ad'
ded to his laurels until in 1885,
through a life given too unstintlngly
! to his work, living too strenuously,
! his vital forces were early extingulsh-
ed and while he was a comparatively
young man his successful work was
ended by the ineXorable hand OF
death.
The last and greatest Of these fam
Gus Tribune writer's is our we'll known
James w. Foley from whom you are
later to hear
These then were the greater lights
among coterie of able and brilliant
writer's who have made literary at
mosphere for our Capital. Perhaps
they have been an inspiration to the
slope writer's, but whether that he
so or not, there have been many men
and women of this vicinity who have
left us legacies from their pens.
The late Mrs Holly of Bismarck,
whom you knew at one time as the
Commissioner for FERMENTATION of
Cruelty to Animals came to the state
in early days and opened private
school. She was considered success
full lecturer hear. She also exhibit
ed merked interest in her state and
lshe has left us a most remarkable
book entitled "Once Their Home"
dealing with Indian legends and
North Dakota history and biography.
OF necessity most of the records left
by our pioneers are only valuable as
chronology They had no time, had
they the talent to analyse events, de-
pict human passions or trace casual
events to their final outcome. They
could only write down occurrences as
they saw them on the surface, but
fortunately Mrs. Holly in her after
math of life took time to record with
not only fidelity but also at times
with actual literary grace the history
of receding race and of the life Of
it's successors. She visited most Of
Jour prominent pioneers and heard
tell before those lips should be for.
ever silenced. In this way she visit
ed the greater portion of the state as
then settled and so speaks with au.
thority. From the title you may cas-.
lily surmse that her book deals large
ly with the history Of the Dacotahs,
or as we more often call them, the
Sioux. To be sure many chapters are
largely chronological and statistical,
the arrangement not always good, but
ever and anon she breaks out with u
true expression Of the romance and
wildness of the prairie life. She al
ways pours out her love for the prair-
les with their clear sky and atmos-
phere. She feels keenly the heroism
of the life of the pioneer and savage
and she gives many sympathetic b.
ography Of rare lives. Let me give
a few selections from the introduc.
ton:
Listen now to me, l am going to
tell you of a great and wonderful Ma.
ton and l am going to tell you of it's
conquerors and of the delightsome
land in which they now dwell to-
gether in peace. But you must have
heard the onward strides of civili-
zation as it pressed forward across
the continent to where the broad
acres stretch away over thousands Of
| square miles, LOT the browsing Ou1-
falo herd and tossed his shaggy
head in surprise and fear and the
startled antelope saw and sped away
to the rivers brink. and I am sure
you caught the echo of it's hurrying
tread as it strobe on and beyond the
turbid water course which takes the
melted SHOWS of the Rocky Mountains
and forces them into the southern
gulf, four hundred miles away from
the fountain on the white capped
submits. Hence you cannot fail to be
interested in what I shall tell you of
this land, eminent in promise and pos
sibilities, as we'll as in the traditions
and legends of the powerful people
that once called it their own and
which was so recently the undisput-
ed hunting erounds Of tho Dahefahs