The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1910-03-29
Travellers Tales

A party of travelling men were sea-
ed about the lobby of the Iardner hotel
on Sunday night, when the pleasing
orchestra was rendering It's concert,
and after an unusually soothing tune,
one of the party remarked: II wonder
IL there is such a place as hell"
Raw BeaIe, who is quite biblical
scholar spoke up and said: "Of course
there is.'' at which one of the drum
mers asked: How the r. do you
know?" and he was astonished to hear
the reply:
i've been there"
After short bit # coaxing Mr..
Beale, who is clerk at the house, was
Induced to tell his experience, and here
it is:
"well. / dreamed / died and shortly
after life had ceased to exist, / found
myself in the most beautiful mansion
that you ever heard of. Flowers were
on every side, birds were singing, there
were grand pictures on the walls, and
countless lights, sweet music filed the
air. and / was net at the door by a
most distinguished looking individual
who took hands with me and showed
me every courtesy. We walked along
the spacious corridors of the place and
he explained everything and showed
me the pictures and all thai and then
we came to a room which was fitted
much like a modern blrroom only SO
grand was it that fairly gasped as
Ii gazed about. On what is called the
back bar were bottles containing all
of the incest drinks that money can
| buy. should have said that the at
mosphere was constantly growing
warmer and it seemed to me that a
drink would be the icest thing in the
world, and the man asked me of
ever took a drink, and / said sure thing
and he stold me to go back and help
myself. | went and just as ! was
reaching for a bottle that was labeled
'ginfizz,' my foot slipped and ] upset
all but two bottles on the marble floor
and the wreck that followed was ter
lrific one The man said to never mind
but to get my drink out of one of the
1.-TWO remaining bottles and l reached
for it, grasped it, and was in the ac
of raising it to my mouth when
sneezed and the bottle fell and was
broken. / grasped at the only one left
missed it, and 1T, too, went to the foo
land the contents were destroyed
Gentlemen, that was hell
Deputy State AuditC- Jorgenson, o
Bismarck, was la the city yesterday OF
business and met many of his friends
He said that the city of Bismar * wa
: on the Jump, that no one who had bee
| Er,xa ntn Ikaf1CT ~ n
time could imagine how rapid was tn
growth and that the ew bank corne
would grace any city in the land. III
! predicted grea. future for the stat
: capital city. He touched on polite
just enough to say that everybody
in the air at Bismarck; that wha
some politicians advocated a year c
two ago they were dead against nov
a and that one didn't Know how his nez
Sdoor neighbor stood today.
= Supreme Court Judge Carmody wa
/. a guest at the Metropole yesterday an
during his stay in the city he paid h
respects to the Forum office. TT
Judges home is at Hillsboro, and /
s took occasion to say that so far as
/. Icould learn none of the farmers h
home town had done any seeding We
but that as he passed on the rail-os
from Bismarck a day or two ago
: had noticed many farmers with the
1t teams working in the fields. The
I ARE many settlers coming In abot
Hillsboro, and they are mostly from J
. linois and they make the very be
class of citizens In fact, the count
Is is settleing UP feet While do n
IN look for any great building boom
Hillsboro still VIC are holding our ow
and there will be several residenc
. erected You see hadn't been hor
since Christmas time, so ! don't knc
10 lust what lis going on about my hor
10 town" He left yesterday for Ri
marck.