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^VM", & aV VOL XXII. My s® IM *tfn Jl? if-. i& Stock Is Always Brandiea and Fine Wines '«i foes Hear It Talk! THE EDISON PHONOGRAPH AH sizes and styles are on sale at Hegglund'a Tailor Skoip. You can save money by buying one of these wonderful machines in Pierre instead of sending away for. it. A large supply of records always on hand. Call and hear it. FRESH ^NEf\T GLERN B. D. DICKEY Dealer in Staple and jfancy Groceries WOKK8 Celebrated!Line of Craekers. CAR LOAD OF Barb Wire AND Nails JUST RECEIVED Hatch & Fishers Buy now before prices go up IIOUOR STORE AND SAMPLE ROOM R. B. MATHIESON, PROP. at 8 AT First door west of First National Hamt, Dakota Ave. Jui' rind© Solicited. A full line of popular brands of Whiskies PRESS the best class of Job Printing \y the most reasonable prices. ?V- ,\lm 7 /*S \-k' A, vJ^ U* _,ti T" METAL PENS. •f Aaoieat feoaaaa Male* lii tkt OtailaatlT* MM. Some curious oue has collected a bum of in teres tlag facts concerning metallic pleas. Some of these refer ences' rua back «s far as the four teenth and. ejtei_ the thirteenth cea-| tury, ux(l, ciAuSly enough, in thei caaA^rche manuscript of Robert d'Ar tois, the forger scribe, is said to have used a bronsg pen in order to diaguise his writing and make his deception mo*e safe, Roman metal pen is' said to have been found at Aosta, not a hi we stylus, hut a bronze pen slit, and tbere is some evidence of a pen or reed of bronze nearly as early as the invention of printing in the fif teenth century. More than a hun dred years ago some steel pens were made in Birmingham for Dr. Priestly, and some of these placed into the ifands of Sir Josiah Mason in his early days' with Mr. Harrison, but all seem to 'have beeailost. The first peii of metal of a definite date, beyond all question, Is one'in a DutDh patent book of 1717. At ab*lit the same time a polite ode -of,Pope's refers tea "steel and golden peiv* bjft were evidently lux uries onl*:, and It 'was not until about .the' end of the first quarter of the last cehtury that ^metallic pens became more generally .to use. In the "Local Notes and Queries" in the Birming ham"* Weekly Post definite evidence has been given of steel pens as early as 1806 and more commonly in 1817, but It was about 1823 and 1824 that the great "revolution caine by which pens were made by a cheaper process—the hand screw press which pierced the pens from steel rolled into tube fash ion and the toint formed the slit, but these require*! considerable labor to shape tiieiu Into pen form. The use of the screw press belohgs to the pe riod of John Mitchell, Joseph Gillot and Josiah Mason, but on a careful review of the facts It seems to be clear that John Mitchell has the best k'laim to be considered' as the original introducer of press made pens.—Buffa lo Times. PITH AND POINT. Being worthless pays no dividends. Keeping a diary is nearly as hard work as keeping a dairy. Being favorably impressed is the cheapest way»we know of being a good fellow. Nothing makes us quite so mad as to have people say, "What made you do It?" It is terribly hard to impress peo ple with the Importance of aiding in a good cause. Every one realizes when h$ goes to a photographer's that he is not look ting his prettiest. It Is all right to do things for your town, but first do things for your home and family. We are all pretty easily pleased when we consider that three or four times a day we see exactly how we look in the looking glass.—AKhison Globe. Astlitsltr of Cfentlac. False weights were found in the ruins of the oldest city that has yet been exhumed. And false weights will probably be consumed when the earth drops Into the sun and the heavens are "rolled io£etiier »1?$e a scroll. Ancient records and ancient statute books are full of Evidence that every modern practlealjlfevlce down to adulterations and crooked scales was familiar to our ^ancestors of the'plateau of Iran before the imgratlcm's, Vice is the old ln habitOTt virtue is the newcomer, the mmigrant, received with reluctance ^ind compelled to fight for every Inch of ground'he gains.—Reader Magazine. A Great 'Lack of Love. There is a pleasant story being told just now of an Irish priest who, tak ng leave of bis congregation, gave his easons for going: "First, you do not jve me, for you have contributed noth ug to my support second, you do not ove each other, for I have not cele ^ratedt a marriage since I arrived .third, the gotd God does not love you. '.'or he has cot taken one of you to iiinself I have not had a single funer al."—London Telegraph. Why She Loved tier. Mrs. Cummins So you love your grandmammn, do you, Grade? And why do you love her? Grade—Be cause she used to punish mamma when mamma wa° a little girl. I hope sbe used to spank mamma as bard as mamma spanks me. Boston Tran script. The Flltkt of Birds. One of the few men to recover sight after being blind from the birth of rec ollection was reported to have wonder ed at nothing so much as the flight of the birds. "Why do not people make mom fuss about them?" be said.—Lon ton Outlook. rsaltf Theory, Oui de Smythe—Those new boots of fours Squeak awfully. Perhaps they're act paid for yet Johnny—That's all •antsns* If there Is anything in that, wfcr ta't a7 ooat and vtet and wj tort SSjmusL .' SWh-^-S 'f-V V? WBf% .X" V' ,V ".-j. :L» ja/ivKK vyB Swf r'l^!* »$ *i SOUTH DAKOTA, THURSDAY, JUNE -~»^V-J WHAT TOTEM ISM IS. Among the O lb way Indians there are no fewer than twenty-three differ ent totems. Nine of these are quadru peds, marking out the wolf, the bear, the beaver and other clans, eight are birds, five are fished and one Is the snake. Borne extraordinary superstitions re garding totems prevail In Samoa. Thus it is believed that if a turtle man eats of a turtle he will grow very ill, and the voice of the turtle will be heard In his Inside saying: "lie ate me. I am killing him." If a banana man uses a banana leaf for a cap he becomes bald. If a butterfly man catches a butterfly It strikes him dead. If a fowl man eats a fowl delirium and death results, and so on, all going to show that the totem has something of the quality of a fetich as well as the significance of a family emblem. Regarding totemism, it is to be notecj that the relation of mutual help andj protection includes also the totem It-j self—that Is to say, if a man taker care of his totem he expects the to tem to return the compliment. If the totem Is a dangerous animal It must not hurt hfs clansmen. The scorpioi^ men of Senegambia declare that th4 most deadly scorpions will run over their bodies without hurting them| There Is a snake clan In Australia which holds to a similar belief. Amon^ the crocodile clan of the Bechuanas If a man is bitten by a crocodile or even has ^ater splashed on htm by one he is excited from the clan a» one esteemed unworthy by the totem.—Housekeeper^ SOME SUPERSTITIONS. If you want a cat to stay at your home, rub its paw ou the stove. To keep a new dog. measure his taii) with a cornstalk aud bury the latter under the front step. If you sing in bed you will cry nexjt day. If you sing Looking at a new moon for the first time through obstructions, as through a treetop, foretells misfortune during that ,inoon. To see It over the right shoulder and in a clear space brings good luck. Wtaea Llchtntn* Kills. "As a rule," sayB a meteorological expert, "those killed by lightning main tain an appearance of life, staying in the attitude which they had when struck. An English minister named Butler witnessed the following: In the town of Everdon ten harvesters had sought refuge under a hedge during a storm. Lightning struck and killed four, who were left as if petrified. One was found holding in his fingers the snuff which be was about to take. An other had a little dead dog on his knees and had one hand on the animal's head, while holding in the other hand some bread with which he had been feeding It. A third was sitting with his eyes open and his head turned toward the storm."—Chicago Tribune. A Traialator'i Blander. Jacob Boehme, the "mystic shoemak er," once wrote a pamphlet which be called "Reflections on the Treatise of Isaiah Stlefei." One of Boehme's bi ographers bad never beard of that the ologian. But he knew enough German to be aware that "Stiefel" meant "boot," and he was further misled by the fact that Boehme was a cobbler as well as a philosopher, so he made a brilliant Bhot and spoke of the pam phlet in question as Boehme's "Reflec tions on the Boots of Isaiah." In this guise it.passed into several catalogues. A Good Thias to Kaow. writer, discussing the lost art of early rising, says, "The proper time to rise is when sieep ends." That's a good thing to learn. Do you know, if we hadn't seen that in a paper we should have gone on believing that the proper time to rise was when you were right ia the midst of your soundest sleep. What a blessed thing it ia for this blind old world that there art some mea lb 1 W '«"& *9 29, 1905. Little Ufkl ma Iatirtatlnc kad Understood Sabjcet. It is interesting to note that totemism Is found not only lu Alaska, but among the North American Indians, the abo rigines of Australia, the Hottentots of Africa and even the hill tribes of In dia. Totems are also common among the Samoans. Broadly the totem is the badge of a clan or tribe, but it signifies a great deal more than mere political or social alliance. It is not only a tribal em blem, but also a family sign not mere ly a symbol of nationality, but also an expression of religion not simply a bond of union among primitive peo ples, but also a regulator of the mar riage laws and of other social institu tions. A totem has been defined as "a class of material objects which a lav age regards with superstitious respect, believing that there exists between him and every member of the class an intimate and special relation." 1 before breakfast you will cry before night. A family must never move except in the light or increase of the moon. This will secure prosperity and increase of possessions. If a woman is making soap and a man stirs It, all will be well and the soap will be fine, but if a woman comes the soap will spoil In the making. S,^v® 3!tfeife?§'fc.,ifc mill DrummoDd. 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