Dakota farmers' leader., December 25, 1890, Image 5

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ALLIANCE CONGRESS.
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al convention to meet in Cincin
23, 1891. The can is largely
and reads as follows:
hereas, in unity there is strength:
therefore, it is desirable that there should
be a union of all the variously named
industrial organizations that stand on
common ground. To this end the indi-
vid uals from various states, whose names
$ Are hereto signed, make this-call for a
national conference of delegates
from the following organizations, namely:
The Farmer* Alliance, theFarmers'Mut
,r, ual Benefit association, the Citizens, the
Knights of Labor, and all other industrial
organizations that support the principles
of the St. Louis agreement of 1889 each
state organization to send one delegate
from each congressional district and two
frmneach state at large, and each'district
oi^Mlization to send not less then three
,es|and each county delegation not
'ijfjne delegate, to be chosen accord
ing customs of each respective or
ganflffiUCTi, during the month of Jan
uary, "1891 also the editor of each news
paper is hereby invited as a delegate that
has advocated the, principles of the St.
Louis agreement and supported the alli
ance candidates nominated in 1890, the
•delegates to meet in Cincinnati on Mon
•day, the 23d of February, 1891, for the
purpose of forpaing a national union party
based upon the fundamental ideas of fi
nance, transportation, labor and land, in
.the furtherance of' work already begun
by those organizations aiid preparatory
for a UDited struggle for country and
home in the great, political conflict now
pending, that much decide who in
this country is sovereign—the citizen on
th«i dollar."
ME, HOLTER CONTINUES.
,er Chapter In Defense of His Position on
Bonds and Mortgages.
©anxon. Dec. 22.—Editor Leadek:
I ask space to defencL.myself a little furth
er in defense of the opinion I have pub
licly expressed regarding the Canton
water works bonds. I don't wish to be
understood, in anything I have said or
may herein say, as having a^ disposition
to "kick" against timely improvements
and ^reasonable ^comforts everywhere.
What I "kick" against is the methodsTTn
to which we have been driven to obtain
them a system by which the actual cost
is multiplied infinitely, and in the end
that which was intended as a blessing,
proves to be a curse to us.
M.V esteemed opponent, Canton Man,
pelts away on the old cloth, worn thread
bare long ago in'discussions on political
economy. He seems to lay me out with
the idea, that I can see no producer or
useljul man in any one but a farmer.
Noyr it is hardly worth while to enlarge
to such pilfiltery. But let it be under
:ood that.I say this: That our customs
and practices in many respects have be
•come perverted that we put the cart be
fow| the horse that our established medi
um for the exchange of products comes
to the producer through an unnatural
-channel that it is burdened with too
many charges when it gets to him that
it igtoo dear for him by the time he gets
it and consequently the amount he gets
for product is too small, in compari
son to the time and effort spent in pro
ducing, arid that this again leads to a re
t&rded production.
My old overcoat is rusty and ragged 1
need a new one but my pile of exchange
is too light to balance the cost of one, so
there is no barter made. The merchant
who has the coat misses a sale the tay
lor misses a chance to make a coat and is
consequently idle for a certain length of
time the loome that weaves the cloth
finds no removal of its products and be
comes idle tlie shepherd who grows the
'wool finds no market and languishes, and
8o on infinitely if our Canton Man will
please percive what is meant by "pro
ductive industries." But he hits the nail
straight when he refers to the seventh
commandment, Let-me relate a little in
cident of history. When the English and
continental European armies were com
bating the French at Waterloo in 1813,
one of the Rothschilds brothers was
watching proceedings from the heights
sermounting the field of battle. A little
past noon on the last day of the struggle,
it became evident to his keen observing
mind that the allied forces led by Well
in gton and Blucher were becoming too
heavy for Napoleon and the French. As
soon as Rothschild percieved this he sped
to the shores of Normandie at a horse
killing speed, hired the swiftest sailing
yacht on the shore to take him across the
British cannal to Dover. From there he
sped on to London heralding all the way
that the battle at Waterloo was lost to
the English. This of course had tljp ef
fect of depreciating English government
bonds they weie freely offered on the ex
change the next day and the Rothschilds
bought them in at greatly declined
prices. As soon as the true report of
events at Waterloo came in. bonds again
went up to standard value, and the
Rothschilds made 18 million dollars in
the deal. Now, some one will term this
smart but there are others who look
deeper into such transactions, and they
are disposed to term it a steal. Let us
see what Dr. Luther says in his explana.
tionon the seven commandment. He
says theft may be either gross or acute,
but he' says the one who steals indirect or
by stratagem is just as much a trangress
or as the one who is guilty of a direct
theft.
How did Rothschild use his stolen
millions. He invested in bonds and took
usury, which in modern language is
termed "legal interest." That kind of
transaction is-stealing by the aid of what
is called "law?" Some people are im
pudent enough to call such business rob
bery. J. E. HOLTEK.
HBIQHT OF FLOWERS.
A Description of th« Growth of Familiar
Plants In Sunny California.
The Eastern visitor to
San Francisco
has probably already heard that the
heliotrope and fuchsias grow very tall,
sometimes up to the second story of a
house. But he is Iikely^to oe a little
surprised to see that they do not
quite take the form of trees, as he ex
pected.
They climb, and are trained against
a house like running1 roses. Some
fuchsias, however, form quite tall
bushes three or four times as high as
they are ever seen in the East One
plant bears hundreds of flowers.
There are not, however, very i^iny
varieties of fuchsia—not more' tlhan
about 20 in all. All of these may be
seen in the East, except, perhaps, two.
One of these has a long, red and
yellow tube somewhat liKe that of the
coral honeysuckle. The other is
called the "autumn fuchia" on ac
count of its orange-tinted foliage.
Flowers with white calyx and crim
son center, or red calyx and white
center, and red calyx and purple
center are quite common. Perhaps
the original species, or "lady's card
drops may be seen in a fuchsia having
a tiny and red blossom. It is an old
story that geraniums here grow very
tall. They can be trained to form
hedges, to. wreathe arbors or climb
over the side of a house.
Prince* Who Nevee Ilelgiied.
We seem destined to have the whole
of the inner workings of the machinery
of the Second Empire, during the last
years of its existence, fully explained
to us by those who fed the fires and
oiled the wheels. The latest series
of revelations is by the Count
d'Herlson (who has already given to
the world several volumes of his
experiences), and is entitled '-The
Prince Imperial (Napoleon IV)." It
is rather a melancholy process to con
template the list of those shadowy
figures in the line of French royalty
that bear the title of King or Emperor,
and that never reigned—the phantoms
of power, scarcely more substantial
than the dim line of kings beheld by
Macbeth in the Witches' Cava Louis
XVII. comes first, the boy. martyr of
the revolution, and at no great dis
tance follows the pallid, sickly shade
that calls itself Napoleon II. That
most prosaic of the later Bourbons,
Henri V. (the Count de Chambord),
lends a needed relief of common
place dullness to the group, which is
completed by the blood-stained image
of Napoleon IV. They never reigned,
these four princes with high-sounding
titles. The day of heirs to the French
throne by the right divine is past
over, never to return.
Physicals Culture of New Turk Girls.
The New York girls are winning a
great reputation for physical culture,
and it would not surprise the most
inattentive observer If, twenty years
hence, the American woman had
caught up with the model English
woman in coloring and muscle^ says
an exchange. Of course, it is a vast
improvement on the narrow-chested,
china-doll beauty of their mothers,
but in attaining this extra height,
breadth and splendid rose tint of
healthin her cheeks, there is darfger
of the American girl loosing some of
those special qualities which have
•made her so desirable in foreigners'
eyes. One thing, however, is certain
—a few generations of this sort of
cultivation will raise the standard of
belledom, and only a perfectly healthy
as well as wealthy, girl will have any
chance in the social race.-vV:'
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Waahlngtei).
Some interesting Belles of Gen.
George Washington were disposed of
in Philadelphia when the estate of
Maj. Lawrence Lewis, last surviving
executor ot the estate of Gen. Wash
ington (and his nephew) and also the
estate of his son, Lorenzo Lewis of
Clark County, Virginia, were recently
sold. In this collection are found
Washington's personal account books,
is original autographic Burvev books,
is original ledger of Mount Vernon
Distillery and Fishery, his autograph
1 st of slaves, his prophetic letter in
relation to the abolition of slavery.
he personal belongings consist of
his punch bowl of rose China and
silver ladle, his secretary candlesicks,
music books (the score of which he
drew and words, in his handwriting)
and Indian pipes presented to him by
Indian chiefs,
An Aim? of Wretched Women.
It is estimated that each year in
New York City 3,000 women find
themselves stranded and not only
homeless, penniless, and without work,
but unable to work, i-'ome have been
leading dissolute lives, some have
lost their husbands through death or
desertion, and others have worked
themselves out ot all strength and
activity. Many of the S.000 are
victims of drink, and all when they
become old and feeble, depend upon
charity for their existence. Those
who are really sick find their way to
the hospitals, the others beg on the
streets and sometimes manage to do
a little scrubbing or washing. Night
finds the wretched army divided
among the stale beer dives, the
cheapest lodging houses, and the
police stations.
A Diamond Karrlng In Her Shoe.
One of the most singulur happen
ings occurred in Lexington, ky., the
other evening. A lady of East Main
street while walking home wits dis
turbed by an article in her shoe,
which she thought at first to be a
cinder which had got in while walk
ing along. She went limping home,
and on removing her shoe found a
diamond earring. Her dress skirt
had apparently caught it up in some
manner and dropped it into her shoe.
The lady is at a loss to know who
lost the valuable anf cannot teil
where she found it
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INDIAN NAMES. ,T
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Literal Translation of Cognomens Bora*
by Bed SI en.
Many suppose thatBuch names as
Sitting Bull," "Hole-in-the-Day,"
etc., are cognomens of convenience
given the Indians by army officers, post
traders and other white men having
dwellings withthem.
This is not the case. The fantastic
names are literal translations- of the
real names of the Indians. The United
States Bureau of Ethnology has de
voted a great deal of attention to the
subject of nomenclature among the
aborigines, with very unsatisfactory
results.
This much is established: The In
dian boy has no name. He is a plain
Indian boy until he becomes a buck or
a warrior. Ihen he is christened, not
formally, but by general consent.
A name is given him that may in
dicate physical excellence, a physical
peculiarity, prowess in war or the
chase, in making a treaty with a
tribe of Indians it is necessary to
secure the signature of every male
member of the tribe.
These documents, as filed in the
archives of the government, offer
some very curious reading. The last
volume published of the session sets of
the United States Congress contains
in full certain treaties as to reserva
tion boundaries made with the Assini
boine, Black Feet, Gros Ventre,
Piegan, Blood and River Crow In
dians.
In each instance the name of the
Indian and the translation is written
out, followed by "his mark" and a
seal. For instance, the Assiniboine
chief, We-cha-je-tonka, is Big Star.
A casual glance over the columns of
signatures will give some idea of the
fantastic diversity of Indian names.
There is a preponderance of such names
as Big Bear, Iron Horn Bull, Fast
Horse, Little Bull, Big Bull, Wolf
Panther, Mountain Lion.
Physical peculiarities are indicated
bv such names as "The Thigh,"
•Poor Shoulder Blade," "Walks Like
a Boy," "Hawk Tracus," "Wrinkle
Face," "Red All Over," "Throat of
Bull," "LeftHand," "Squint Eyes,"
'One Eye," "NoEyes," "Iron Voices"
Woman's Hip."
Confirmed habits and disposition
may perhaps be indicated by such
names as "Shaved Clean," "Dirty
Ear,'1 "Strikes His Breast," "Steals
Tobacco." "Beats His Wife," "Lying
White Man," "Kicking Woman,"
Cold Feet," "Chief Coward," "Steal
a Gun at Night'' "Man Who Steals
Woman." "Man Loves Tobacco."
Within a space taken up by fifteen
names is found in a Black feet tpeaty,
warriors bold answering to the improb
able combination of "Stand Him Off,'"
Wets jlisMouth," "Whisky," "Hard
Looking Man." and "Bad Hat"
Exploits and physical prowess are
perpetuated in the names of the
braves, and glancing ovei* the list' fit
random the eye is struck by such
designations as "Big Brave," "Stran
gled the Wolf,'* "Chief on the Prai
rie," "Chief All Over," "Good Stab
bv," "Heady-to Shoot" "Man Who
Don't Run," "Fight the Bear," "Take
It Alive," and "Many Wounds."
Some of the names bestowed carry
with them coutempt and derision. Of
such are "Stays in Camp," "Grand
mother," 'Temporarily Married^"
••Loto of Sleep," "Cat Gifts," "Squaw
Beater," "Takes Back Gifts," "Yel
low Liver," ••Seared Out."
Some idea of the worldly posses,
sions of certain Indians is carried
with such names as "Twelve Blan
kets," "Heavy Gun," "Two Guns,"
•Many Horses," "Plentyto Eat" and
•Tall Hat"
The variety ot names indicating
fancied resemblances in appearances,
manners or voice to birds and animals
swells the strange list to such an ex
cent as to permit only of passing
mention.
A War Incident,
Shortly after dinner the band of tho
Union troops turned up their instru
ments and began playing some of the
national airs, which were received
with hearty applause by- the boys in
blue und sepulchral groans from the
boys in gray, i'lie johnny lieos, not
to be outdone, also called out their
band, which played tae melodies so
dear to the southerner, and which
were received with, acclamations of
joy on one side and shouts of derision
on the other. Finally the Union
leader, placing, his cornet to his lips,
began playing the familiar strains of
"Home, oweet Home," in which he
was speedily joined by the other
members of his band. This was too
much for the boys in gray. They
might fight to the bitter end with the
meu across the stream on political
matters, but when it came to the
home circle, of wife and children
tneir return from war, they
were Druthers with the boys in blue,
and tiia Confederate bund joined
in wit.i tu«it of the Union forces and
for the ii.ine till thought of hate ana
war as forgotten.
Afrloan Kzpioreri,
A list of explorers who have crossed
Africa shows that from 1802 to 1811
the feat was accomplished by a Portu
guese, Honorato de Costa in 1838
and 1853 by Francesco Coimbra and
Silva Forto in 186-1 by Dr. Living
stone: in lstio' by Gerhard Kohlfs in
1874 by Lieut Cameron and Mr. Stan
ley, then by Serpa Pinto and the
Italians Mattenio and Massari next
by Lieut vv isamann, from 1882 to
lti-Si anu ecently by the ScotchMis
sionary Arnat, the Portuguese CaDello
and Ivans, the Swedish Lieut Glee
rup, who occupied the least time,
crossing from Stanley Falls to Baga
tnoyo in six months the Austrian
Dr. Senz Mr. .Stanley for the second
time and, finally, Capt Trivier, the
French traveler. The first explorer
who. crossed Africa took nearly ten
years, whils *ho last occupied barely
a year
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FENCINQ FOR WOMEN.
II
A Simple and 1 borough Means of Ex
ercise and Physical Training.
Driving, rowing, bowling, tennis, ant
archery have year by year fallen into
women's line of exercise. Each has
a large and enthusiastic following,
and also an area of critics, who are
assured that one and all are too vio-'
lent, not to say unwomanly, that
woman should not go beyond the toss
of grace hoops, such as their grand
mothers enjoyed, or battledore and
shuttlecock or a quiet gatr.e ot cro
quet
With the athletique of the new
school, these are mere ABC pass
times, and the use of the foils is the
latest addition to the real exercise
list writes Emma Moffett Tyng in
Harper's Bazar. If one looks at
"fencing free from the wrap of old
prejudices,, it must.be recognized as a
simple and thorough means of exer
cise. It gives flexibility, firmness
and grasp tothe muscles of the hand
and wrist and also brings life and
pliability to the mucular cord Work of
of the whole body. Every part is
Stirred and tried and strengthened by
the varied and successive movements.
From the first pose and placement
of position, when the right arm ex
tends to meet or give the stroke, the
left raised high at the call -En grade!'
on through the whole series of lunge,
thrust and parry, there is not a mo
ment free from absolute concentration
of attention, decisive action and com
mand of body. This is, in itself, won
derful dieipline. To quote from a
distinguished master and professor of
a French school now in New York
"The passages pour les dames are
naturally at first quite short, a few
strokes and then a rest again and
again, a halt an hour each day. 'En
fin!' Madame is alive all over, und i:
command of herself from head to
foot"
And so it is only madame and mad
emoiselle must have the good sense
to detirmine beforehand whether her
physique be evenly balanced, and
whether it be sound enough to stand
the steady, gradual developement as
a whole, or whether there are weak
points which must be guarded and
brought first to a aormal condition of
health.
The "Jbffr»phv" Class Has a Hard Time.
The English and Germans are mix
ing up the nomenclature of New
Guina and the surrounding islands in
a most hopeless fashion. The Ger
mans have renamed many islands east
of New Guinea which since their dis
covery vears ago had borne names
given to them by the Englishmen who
found them. Looking northeast
through their glasses awhile ago,
some English explorers on a Sew
Guinea mountain top saw two great
mountains which they named Glad
stone and Disraeli. Awhile after a
German explorer, looking southwest
at the same peaks, dignified them
wi(h t)ie names of Kant and Schopen
hauer. So we have on German and
English maps different names for the
Bame mountains. The geographers
of the two countries should come to
some agreemnnt to avoid this con
fusion.
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fjsvs- Beecher** Wt4»w."'
Mrs. Henry Ward Beecher grows
more beautiful as advancing years
and growing feebleness take posses
sion of her. She sits'in a beautiful
bay window surrounded by birds and
flowers, and dreams of the days when
she and "Henry" were struggling
along in a little V\ estern village, try
ing to k$ep the pot boiling and the
sermons written. But those were
long-ago days! Now, though in com
parative poverty, Mi's. Beecher has
enough business engagements to keep
her from actual want and if she
could fulfill one-half the orders that
come to her, she would be a rich
woman. Every publishing firm in
the country has naked her to write the
life of her dead husband, but. owing
to her poor health, she has refused
them all.
Site Pr Choj+ii to Cltopiii.
In the backwoods of linker's ltiver,
Ore., a young couple are" engaged in
clearing a liome«tead. As the land is uot
yet self sustaining the husband is
obliged to go a distance to work an
day wages, in such cases the wife
stays at home, her only company be-^
ing a Winchester riile and a thcgj(0K
pound axe. After the moruintr house
work she takes her axe and goes to
clearing, chopping anil burning brush.
She can chop the heart oi a tree
nearly as quickly as her husband can.
She is well educated. I1&3 had no
perience in roughing it, but is de
termined to aid her husband all that,
she can to secure a comfortable home.
tins* :*mI» riiiiomtpiiy.
It is said in many French vil
lages boards are set up bearing the
following instructions: "Hedgehog:
Lives upon mice, snails and wire
worms, animals injurous to agricul
ture. Don't kill a hedgehog. Toad:
Helps agriculture, destroys twenty to
thirty insects hourly. Don't kill a
toad. Cockchafer and its larvse:
Deadly enemies to farmers, lays seven
ty to one hundred eirgs. Ki.l the
Cockchafer. Birds: Each depart
ment of France looses yearly many
millions of francs through the injury
dono by insects, xlon't kill the birds."
Give lltm Moment Right Away.
••I never saw a man that kuows
less."
"He isn't very brilliant, that's true."
"V» hy, I remember lust winter,
when I had such a severe cold, he
was the only man I met that didn't
know and tell me a sure cure for it
right off."
tle l»nble Who Undid Him.
Edward Everett Hale's double is
said to be Walter Besant, though Mr.
Hale does not recognize him as such.
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THE OLD
Crockery
and
Opposite Court House,
CANTON, S. D.
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a complete line of
Canton,
Fresh Stock of Drugs & Groceries
—JU8T ARRIVED.-
^We wish to call the attention of the farmers of Lincoln- "County
and adjoining counties, as well as the citizens of Canton, that we
have put in a complete'stock of Drugs, Oils, Paints, brushes, toiletv"'
fancy articles, perfumery and dye stuffs also all kinds of PATENT
MEDICINE kept in stock. Prescriptions promptly and carefully
filled both day and night, by.
C3-. S. tianson
We also carry a complete stock of STAPLE and FANCY
GROCERIES, Crockery, Glassware, Queensware, Lamp and China
ware.
Give us a call. HANSON BROS.
CANTON. SOUTH DAKOTA
RELIABLE GROCEBY,
A C. MILL!MAN,
Proprietor.
I keep everything new and fresh—the choicest goods in
market.
A $10 Encyclopoedia free with every I
worth of goods.
—SOLD BY—
RUDOLPH
THE EAGLE DRUG STORE.
Has Renwyed to the Bedford Building.
Formerly occupied by the postoffice, w-here I have opened a larger stock of Drugs
Paints, Oils, brushes, and everything in the drug line than I had before. Also carry
as much if not more for your money then you can get elsewhere.
figures. Call in and see the
ment.
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CoHfectioaery
and
Provisions.
CANTON,
'Agent for Lincoln county.
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Three, Five, Ten and Twenty-five Cent Counter Goods.
Come iri and see how much I can sell you for ten cents. I
have enlarged my quarters and put in a new stock of goods, and
?m now better perpared to suit my old customers then before. I
also invite the attention of new trade, from all parts of Lincoln
county. Come in and see me. I will treat you well and sell you
A. G. NOID,
—Just Arrived from the East—
CHAS. CHRISTOPHER
Is Home From Chicago,
And has opened the largest stock of Dry
Goods ever brought to Canton. Have
marked everything down to rock bottom
New Goods! New Styles! New Prices!
Also new kinds of goods in every depart-
Just Arrived
Erom the East.
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