The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1921-09-16


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WASHINGTON NEWS. LETTER !
Exclusive to the Pioneer Express)
Mr.. John T. Adams, who recently
succeeded Will Hays as Chairman
of the Republican National Commit
tee, was at one time resident of
North Dakota, living in a claim
shanty near Bismarck in the BOOM
days when Burleigh county was adj
vertised as the Banana Belt Of
North Dakota" According to an
other Washington man who lived
with Adams in the pioneer days the
political game was already simmer
ing merrily even then and perhaps
it was there that Mr.. Adams first
felt the fascination of the calling
that has since made him famous.
At any rate the present Chairman
of the Republican Committee still
loves to recall the happenings of
his youth in Dakota.
Recently Mr.. Adams was telling
Representative George M. Young Of
his experiences in the Bismarck of
1883 and the Congressman was re-
minded of a poem by James w. Fo-
ley which he Immediately set about
to find for the benefit of the new
party leader.
The poem, the theme of which
the Foley collection in the, Congress
sional Library and Mr. Young wrote
to the State Capitol, enlisting the
aid of Miss Minnie J. Nelson, Sup
erintendent of Public Instruction.
Miss Nelson, in turn, solicited the
assistance of DR.. Gilmore, of the
Historical Department, Mrs. Flor
ence Davis, City Librarian, Bis
marck, and Mrs. M. H. Jewel. Mrs.
Jewel recalled the poem but for a
time none of the three could put
their hands upon copy. Finally
after a diligent search copy of the
derelict manuscript was found in a
Bismarck attic.
It is reprinted here for the benefit
of those whom it will interest:
UBIQUITOUS.
By James w. Foley
A ship-wrecked man was floating in
the open polar sea
On an iceberg that was wriggling
in the water merrily.
He was sole surviving relict of an
exploration crew
And was anxiously awaiting some
good ship to heave in view.
He was rescued by a whaler and
the captain looked him DER:
"Your face seems quite familiar;
haven't seen you before?"
And the ship-wrecked man made
answer: "You must remember me
For I used to live in, Bismarck back
Then they both shook hands right
warmly and were comrades, for
you see
They both had lived in Bismarck
back in 1883.
A traveller in the desert scanned
the sky on every hand
But wherever roved his vision there
was but sea of sand.
His comrades lay on every side; his
camels all were dead,
The sun beat down with flaming
heat upon his turbaned head.
He was rescued from the desert as,
with wild, despairing cry,
He had given up all hope of life and
laid him down to die.
His rescuers with wondering eyes
and eager voices cried:
"How is it that you live when all
your hardy camels died ?"
Then he said: "a camel drinks en-
ough for three weeks, but for me,
Well used to live in Bismarck
back in 1885,"
A traveller in the Arctics after
years of fruitless quest,
Came plump upon the North Pole
and sat him down to rest.
Then he said: "I'll file homestead
here, the Pole is mine at last;
OF all the fame of famous men my
fame shall be most vast"
Then a voice came up thru snow
and ice that filled him with awe:
you're sitting on my chimney and
my cooking stove won't draw!"
"What's that?" exclaimed the trav.
eler, and the voice replied "That'a
me,
And I used to live in Bismarck back
in 18s3."
IF you're looking for location, buy
half a block or whole
In my Forty-first addition to the
City of North Pole"
These are simple, truthful stories
just related here to show
That no matter where you travel OF
wherever you may go,
You're bound to run across him, for
he bobs up here and there
just seems to drop from space
somehow, to meet you everywhere
The moon it may be tenantless, NO
pople live on Mars,
All space be void Of being and no
souls live on the stars,
But the voice that breaks the silen.
ce Of the stars will say: "Who