Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1911-08-23
Stories Of CufbStoDe and
Corridor

! CurrIuuf 8
A we'll known business man was tell
ing his neighbor what a mean dispo.
sition his wife has. II happened to re-
main out late last night and when |
got home found the door locked. Aft
er rapping several times l heard her
coming and the way her bare feet hit
the floor knew l was in for it,
who's there" she called out.
"Who were you expecting?" l re.
sponded.
Her eyes fairly blazed as she
jerked the door open and snapped out,
I was expecting a man who has
little grain of respect for his family;
gacies to the neighbors, one who
here she choked down and could
say no more. That was Sunday night
and she has not spoken to me SINCE
The fond Rachael was teaching her
little son subtraction. "Now, Herman,
if you have five pennies and lose three
pennies, how many pennies have
you left?
But, Mamma, why should l lose
three?"
There is a growing rivalry between
the state land department and the de-
partment of agriculture and labor.
They face each other in the big cap
ital building and like two warning cats
they sit with bowed backs ready to
spring. A bard in the land depart.
ment writes verses. They are good
verses. Now young lady across the
hall sends up this wall:
Midway along the High road of our
days.
I found myself within shadowy
wood.
Where the straight path was lost in
tangled ways.
All! had words to tell. If any could,
The, fierce, harsh aspect that wild !
; forest wore! -:
Eut. l think thereon my. fears re-
pewed:
So bitter s it, Death is hardly more"
"A shrek. a wall, and a groan,
A sigh, sob, and moa n.
Sam clark, the heartless but unmar-
ried Sam, says that Is all poetry
fate and tat: Women never see any
thing but the dark side when they sit
down to put their weeps on paper.
Now; here IS something more to my
liking; although 1t suggests physical
exercise Of a more or less violent ma
ture: "
The various things that we must do,
:. Have frequently been sung.
Poor fathers task is never through,
His patience oft is wrung;
When father works or carves the
duck.
His dignity is shrunk,
But he Ia in the hardest luck
When father locks the trunk. :
With tousled hair and fingers sore;
And eyes with moisture dim, II
He mutely kneels upon the floor,
! Before that monster grim.
He wears a look of maniac glee
=. And gibbers at the chunk
Of steel they. sold him for a key
V When father locks the trunk
"Just like man." insists Mrs.
Brown, 'criticizes a thing in another
and commits the same offense. Now
call this the philosophy of the real
woman. =.
The circumstances OF command
Our moods, which grieve or joke,
The optimist has cash in hand,
The pessimist is broke.
Burt ThurstOn is also in the land
office when he is not talking politics
with some Emmons county statesman.
He says the most cheerful thing he
ian think of it in political lines runs
like this:
Brake and fern and cypress dell,
Where the slipping adder crawls,
IN the old moss-covered we'll
Demons, devils, witches brawl.
Lloyd D. Fuller, six feet five and a
half inches tall and broad in proper.
lion. came in and registered for the
Berthold land drawing. Mr.. Fuller
represents the Joseph Campbell Co.,
'0up manufacturers. He remarked to
Notary Cordner when filling in his
name that he would go in for a half
section, the regulation quarter being
~ Sudll " StTc!Cu OUT Oh.
Judge Carmody, of the state board
If control was asked: II
Does a dollar go as far as it used
;o?" '
well, dollar gets by without much
trouble. But million of 'em can't
90 very far without being investigat.i
3D." II
lsttres do Cachet.
Lettres de cachet was the name CIV
10 In France to warrants sealed with
The kings seal ordering persons to be
thrown into prison or exiIed. The
[irst came into use about 1910 and
shortly became one Of the popular ter
rors of France. 1t is said that no less