Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1911-09-19
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Stories Of Cufbstone and
Corridor

Dick Coonan says there was frost
; enough last night to run a cold stor'
age for thirty days, but the crops
are too far out to receive much in
quiry. Dick used the expression,
"crops are too far out" and leaves it
! to his nearer to guess at the meaning.
It is an expression the pie man
. brought from South Dakota. Most
people would take it that Dick meant
: 1.-THE fodder is in the shock" and be-
yond the reach of harm. 9th
ers might suspect not knowing the
! habit to. guard crop secrets in this
I country, that there wasn't much crop
for Jack Frost to lay his fingers on.
The real tenderfoot, however, would
think there was a danger line some
where around Bismarck and the crops
were safely beyond it. "Too far out
are the crops" says Mr. Coonen, Ito
receive much damage" And he is
right. The wheat is in the bin, the
corn is in the shock. The oats are
out of the way and flax is beyond the
point of much injury. Potatoes thrive
on early frosts. Judge Frank Fisk,
who has raised many potatoes, with
a fork, tells his Bismarck friends
that an early frost is the making of
| the potato crop. 1t kills the vines
and natures the berry. Anyway, he
claims it works that way around Will
liston. But like Dick Coonan, Judge
Fisk admits frost and cracked ice
have higher missions to perform than
destroy the forage of the potato bug.
DR.. Robertson, of the state board
of control, started his career as a
printer. His first. introduction to the
business was feeding ink to Wash
ington hand press. After his acquain-
lance with the Washington became of
an intimate nature he shook hands
with it for days at time. Then came
composition and he tackled straight
matter. After about five years, and
the Wisconsin wage scale had reach
ed about So per week, he took notion
to earn money, so he entered a foun-
dry. 1t was a big foundry with q
fringe of Chicago running clear
around it. In the foundry he was a
number. he never had a name. Some
poor fellow dropped out and he inner
tied No. 654, and he remained 654 un-
til the end of his foundry career. But
he did assemble bank roll in that
line of work, thing impossible In
the print shop. With the cash he
saved in the foundry and the educa-
| ton he picked up toying with Mr..
Washington's hand press, he started
upon a career and he has been work
ing on it ever since.
! Tom Hall, of the state railway com.
mission, says the monopolies have
repealed the law of supply and de.
mand. He says there was time
when big supply and a small de-
mand for a certain product gave 1t
. low price. Now the corporations
, gobble up and control the staple com.
! modities and regulate the supply to
, suit the demand, thereby maintaining
a fixed price. It is of course neces.
sary at times to destroy the surplus
in the storage houses, but this is a
mere incident. What are million
crates of eggs, more or less, to put out
of the way when the price In the
market is 40 cents dozen and be-
yond the reach Of the vulgar poor.
Certain commodities in surplus stored
in ice houses attract the eye of DR..
Wiley's agents some times and their
stale and rotten condition determined
they are destroyed. 1t is not neces.
sary to talk suppl. and demand to
me as a gauge for determining prices.
The campaign is approaching with
all the flow of oratory in prospect.
And such oratory! There is nothing
approaches the North Dakota variety.
A colored constituent of state off,
Ger has just mailed him the following
lines from Mandan.
Oh come round, dMistoh Speaker,
And talk to US some mo-;
Well gladly be de aujince,
AS we has been befO'.
De song birds all have lef' us
Some of 'em done been ct
An you's de only substitute
For dem dat we has met.
Come round, Mistoh Speaker,
An help US to rejoice,
Dis OIL world seems mo- kindly
When you lifts up yo' voice.
Yves willin' TO- to- treat you
Des like we treats de birds.
Well listen tb de melody
An never mind de words.
HAIR THAT FASCINATES