Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1911-08-19
Stories Of Curbstone and
Corridor

Pat White tells a good one on a
! Yiddish friend of his upstate. It seems
that when the friend opened a cloth.
ing store in the town he was anxious
| to get and hold the trade and he ex-
F.! tended credit. One young man who
! had been buying his clothing out of
| town and considered the society lead
er in his set, purchased a suit and
agreed to pay for it at given time.
The date of payment passed and an
other month went by and no pay and
no explanation. This made the cloth
ting mauevery angry and he sat right
down and wrote this letter:
John Smitl-Dear Sir: Who comes
in and bys my cloding? Who tells
he will bay for id in ty weeks? Who
waits to come in? Who is a id lying
pup? Yours truly, Isaac Strauss"
He had just turned the corner and
started up Fourth street off of Main
when he was seen to halt and bend
his gaze intently on some object
ahead The electric light flickered
and danced, but he paid no attention.
His whole mind seemed to be conferred
on the object ahead. With stealthy
step he approached, hesitated and
then shot forward, yelling as he ran.
But he was too late. With muttered'
curse he resumed his natural gait.
The black cat he had been watching
ran across his patti, the omen of i'll
l,,ck hod o,,tu}tfo6 him
Lieutenant Governor Burdick tells
a good joke an old politician once
played on him. It seems there was
a country date to fill and the COM
mittee being short of spellbinders
billed the politician and young Bur-
dick to speak there. The old-timel
was to make the chief address and
the young man would fill it. The
orators drove out and on the way Bur-
dick rehearse6 his proposed speech
to his companion interpreting it
with some good stories. How will
that strike them?" asked the young
man.
"Capital!" answered the old CAM
paigner. "The stories are fine"
"A good house greeted u.s." said
the coming Huetenant governor, "and
while a little nervous was anxious
to shout off my maiden speech. OF
course the main orator occupied the
opening and he was of the old school.
He fought the war all over again.
There was the usual streams ran red
with patriotic blood, barred his breast
to the leaden hail of the enemy, south
ern prison bells, that fierce sanguin-
ary conflict and then he shifted to
milder things. This reminds me OF
q story l once heard" and what was
my chagrin when he proceeded to tell
tho one had repeated to him on the
way out. After the. laugh had sub:
sided he again waded into the enemy;
the Democratic party, and proceeded
to flay the candidates Of that organ.
ization. had almost forgotten that
was to follow with few remarks
when he again was reminded Of
story. 1t was the prize Of my whole
repertoire and the audience, went wild.
l did not join in the laughter could
MOTTO me it was a tragedy. sat
there helpless while the orator of tho
occasion told all my stories, and final
" he introduced me as brilliant
young man, a powerful orator and the
best story teller in the county.
E. H. Munire OF Solen was in the
city last night. Solen is a new town
and e. H. Is it's mayor. He says 1t
Is the garden spot of Morton county
and while the streets Of Solen may
not be as long as those of Bismarck
they are just as wide. Munire is an
old Indiana boy and is the professor
of the 500 Lumber company of his
town. He admitted privately to the
writer that Bourbon is the town of his
nativity, but he had absolutely moth
ing to do with naming it. He did the
best thing he could under the trying
circumstances. AS Republican and
temperance advocate he left Bour-
bon to her fate and came west where
he might pick out a spot and give it
q proper name.
J. w. Burgess, travelling for a CON-
pany which issues some kind of a
gazetteer, tells of a rather exciting
experience he had in Red river town
in this state. Il aim to stop at the
hotel when l get into town and as
l stay from one to two weeks aim to
get rates. l am allowed two dollars
a day, but aim to save part of this
for cigar money and generally get a
rate of 50 or SO a week. But the fell
low who owns the hotel refer to
uO,,1d mt out To IN al m ca