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The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1885-05-08
Beauty in America.

Thanks to a more generous diet, a
freer outdoor air, and a larger out
look, the present generation will leave
a rich heritage to posterity. 1t is
astonishing to see the Improvement in
the human form that has accompanied
the increase of wealth in this country.
Poverty may be, and often is, respec-
table, but it is the ruin of many a
tine physique; and it is a matter for
iubilatlon that we have within our
borders a large and growing class who
can afford to be comfortable.
Of course there is danger of running
well-fed business man is sometimes
suggestive of a equity old age, as is the
buxom and robustious beauty of the
waddling dowager; but on the whole
there is a most decided betterment.
And, although it may not be in our
time, we may indulge a reasonable
hope for a not far distant future when
the toiling race of New England
farmers wives, that sallow, skinny,
salaratus-fed sisterhood, shall be ex-
tinct, and in their place shall stand
a hale, hearty, and happy following,
who live on the fat of the land, and
sell only that which they can not use
themselves, who have time and tasto
to array themselves in something be-
sides a cheap cotton gown, and gladly
make concessions to fashion in the
matter of couture; who read something
besides the Bible, and, on the whole,
he No almost 90 nocU q f1nan 90 fhnir
spouses' beasts of burden.
Take it all in all, we believe we
have good right to felicitate ourselves
in the face of the world over our fair
women
The great and overwhelming adj
vantage that la belle Americana pos
sesses W. her foreign compeers is
that, although she revels, as a girl, in
what the French call la beaute du
diable, her charm does not fade with
the tieeting years of youth, and we
are spared the horror of seeing the
English transformation of delicate,
high-bred loveliness into the SEM
blance of a big, habby, and some what
Incorporate cook, or the frightful
spectacle afforded by our continental
sisters of the shrinking and changing
of a pretty. piquant face to the weaz-
ened features of an elderly female
monkey.
Of course, innocent, unconscious
beauty is a thing OF the past, that we
cannot hope to regain. The young
woman of the present day knows her
good points as well as she knows the
contents of her p~ocketbook, and what
they will buy in the market a good
deal better; but what she has lost in in
genuousness she has probably gained
in practical common e.-BoSton
CourtieT.
The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1885-05-08
Before and Behind the Scenes.

From the New London Telegram.
To show more clearly, the comicali-
ties and absurdities of stage life, we cite
a few incidents which are the results OF
personal observation, and which, to the
u~nthinking, show the vast difference
between the relations of professional
people before and behind the scenes:
Before the scenes: Hero-For years
l have followed you as the relentless I'll
ger follows his prey, and now you must
prepare for the just punishment your
crimes deserve. Thus do / bury my
knife again and again in your craven
heart-thus do / satiate my direst VEN
geance.
Villain-With my dying breath I
curse you. (Dies.)
Behind the scenes: Hero-Say, Cur
ly, lend me q collar button; some takir
has collared mine.
Villain-That's an old guy. But here
you are. Don't be ashamed to return
Before the scenes: King-down,
slave, and beg my royal pardon.
Slave-Yes, sire; most humbly dol
crave the clemency.
Behind the Slave-Here,
you royal dummy with the tin fake on,
pull off my boots, will you? ! can't
stoop over for this pad.
King-Why, cert, jimmy.
Before the scenes: Hero-Thus l
endow thee with a royal ransom. Take
this package; within it you will find
forty thousand dollars, and if you need
more you have but to send word to my
lawyer.
Behind the scenes: Hero (who is al
so the manager)-I am very sorry, Lii
lie, but / can't pay your salary this
week. Here is a dollar make that go
until we strike better business.
That's o good girl.
The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1885-05-08

Often we hear one friend ask this
question of another. lis ones social
duty done by accepting and giving
invitationsp What do we bind our
selves to in accepting the hospitality
of a friend or acquaintance Is our
duty by her done when we have enter
ed the portal OF our hostess and have
given her greetingp Do we W any
thing to her guestsp If we are q man,
do we do our duty when we neglect
speaking to the ladies whom we knowp
Ii we see a chance when we can be of
service to our hostess in making things
pleasant and agreeable for her, is not
that q duty to be ready and happy
TO do her bidding or even to anticipate
itP III we are q woman u power to
do more than to MAZE ourselves as
agreeable as we may is united. We
a then only be kind, generous and
considerate of other Women as ii
comes in our way. We cannot seek
the opportunities of being polite and
making the happiness of those about
us as men can. Selfshness, alas that
we see so much of it where tnele is
the least excuse for it.-Ladies. Hon1s
journal
The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1885-05-08

female relatives to a teepee, which is
a small wigwam, where she remains
with them twenty-five days. During
this time she performs work which is
supposed to be strengthening. 1t con-
sistS, chiefly OF piling wood. Three
times a day, at morning, noon and
night, she stacks five piles Of wood,
making fifteen each day. Every five
days her relations take her to the river
to battle, and at the end of the time
she gives her clothing to her attend
ants and returns to the family lodge.
Very frequently the wardrobe which
she presents her female attendants is
quite extensive, and is regarded by
them as a valuable present. When the
young girl has spent twenty-five days
in the teepee she has made her debut
into the society of her tribe, and that
is considered as a public announce
ment that she is ready to marry
San Francisco Call.
The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1885-05-08
The Queer Nasal.

A more remarkable or unique race,
says Joseph Thomson in Through
Nasal Land" does not exist on the
continent of Africa-Indeed, | might
safely say in the two hemispheres. In
their physique, manners, and customs,
and religious beliefs they are distinct
alike from the true negroes and from
the Gala and Somali. They are the
most magniticently modelled savages
| have seen or even read of. Beauti-
fully proportioned, they are charac-
terized by the smooth and round out
line of the Apollo type, rarely showing
the knotted muscles of the true ath-
lete. The women are very d%ecently-
dressed IN bulluck's hide. They wear,
by way of ornament, from twenty to
thirty pounds of thick iron wire coiled
round the limbs, arms, and neck, be-
sides a great assortment of beads and
iron chains. The men wear only a
small kid skin garment round the
shoulders ard breast, that being of
somewhat more ample dimensions
among the married men. The most
remarkable distinction characterizing
the various epOcs in the life history of
the Nasal. The boys and girls up to a
certain age, live with their parents
and feed upon curdled milk. meat and
grain. At the age of y with the girls,
and from II to II years with the boys,
they are sent from the married mems
kraaI 10 one in which are only young
unmarried men and women. There
they live till they are married. At
this stage the men are warriors, and
their sole occupations is cattle-lifting
abroad and amusing themselves at
home. The young women attend to
the cattle, build the huts, and perform
other necessary household duties.
Both sexes are on the strictest diet.
Absolutely nothing but meat and milk
pass their lips. Spirits, and beer, to-
bacco or vegetable food are alike es-
chewed. So peculiar, indeed, are they
in their notions that they will not even
eat the meat of any wild animal.
Moreover the meat and milk are never
taken together. kor several days the
one is the sole diet, to be followed by
the other after partaking of a power
full purgative. On killing 9 bullock
they drink the blood raw, which doubt
less supplies them with the necessary
salts. In eating meat they always re-
tire to the forest in small parties, &C
~companied by a young m So
pleasant does the Nasal warrior find
this life that he seldom marries until
he has passed the prime of life, and
begins to find his strength decline.
The great war spear and heavy buffa-
Io-hide shield, the knobkerry, are
then laid aside. For a month he
dons the dress of an unmarried woman,
and then becomes a staid and respect
able member of Nasal society. He
goes no more to war, but devotes him
self to the rearing of a brood of young
warriors. His diet changes with his
mode of life, and he may indulge in
vegetable food, drink beer or spirits,
and smoke or chew tobacco. At death
the body is simply thrown out to the
hyenas and vultIres.
The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1885-05-08
A Model Church.
From the Toronto Globe.

From the toronto 6l0De.
The Church of the Holy Communion,
New York, sets an example worthy OF
all imitation as q working church. IL
has 900 communicates on its roll.
These keep liz operation o baby shelter;
an industrial school, registering 354
names; an employment society. furnish
ing work to sixty poor m each
week, a workingmen's club whose mem
bership numbers 203, whose income
last year was over 81, 300 and which
has in connection a Literary club and q
relief association; q special club Tor
boys;a home for aged women, which
had last year fourteen inmates, and
provides this year for twenty; q shelter
for respectable girls, which has never
less than thirty inmates; a Summer
home at Hastings-on-the Hudson, where
last Summer more than 100 persons
were entertained; and a coal fund. by
means of which poor people are able <
obtain coal at greatly reduced rates. IL
may readily be conceived that Q church
whose members thus devote their ener-
gies to works of practical philanthropy
is not likely to have either time or IN
clination for the numerous entertain
ments" which seem the best e~xpedient
most modern churches are able TO de-
wise for promoting social intercourse
and good will. We venture to say the
loss is not felt by the members Of the
church in question; and thati its methods
in addition to all the material and NOR
al benefits they confer on outsiders,
will be found much more conducive
to brotherly kindness, aud much less
fruitful Of idle and miscellaneous gossip,
not to say back biting and SANDER, than
those of the churches so much given
to socials Of the tea-drinking and speech
ifcation kind.
The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1885-05-08
Fishes in Hot W alter.

A stupid old story relates the pro-
fame language made use OF by the fish
es when Soils perpendicular rays IL
Illuminated the depths of the sea-" As
to what really happens or such occa-
sions. some experiments just made ply
the secretary of the National Fish
Culture association, and reported by
The Fish Culture Journal, gives results
curious and possibly practically use
full The object was to discover the
highest temperature at which fish can
exist in water, the competitors being
crabs, gudgeons, dace, roach, perch,
golden tench, common tench, trout,
salmon, and minnow. Net till the
water reached eighty degrees did any
sign of languor show themselves, and
the first that gave in was a. perch at
e~ighty-two degrees. Then followed
retirements in the following order:
Roach, salmon, minnow, gudgeon,
dace, common tench, golden tench-
until the crab was left winner Of the
prize for endurance, holding out till
81 degrees. 8 degrees better than the
best record below him. Having taken
the hot water neat with what looked
| like fatal results, the natural corrective
was exhibited in the form Of brandy,
which to the dismay of teetotal prac-
titioners, presently SET all the COM
petitors swimming about in their
normal condition just as if nothing
had happened, with the sole exception
one dacf. who died a martyr either to
science or TO the somewhat heroic
remedy. Some surprise Is expressed
at the endurance of the minnow, and
also OF the salmon, considering his
special need Of oxygen, and even at
that of the perch, who is know "a
have an exceptional and characteristic
antipathy to warm water. 1t remaIns
to be shown, of course in what way pis-
ciculture is to be practically benefited
the OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Globs.
The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1885-05-08
Religious Growth in Amer;o.

.."..
From Demorest's Monthly.
The rise and fall of religious crooa.
in this country is very interesting :
showing the tendency of things with :.
Since 1860 the Methodists have pos.
pace with the growth of populat;op
T~wenty-tour years ago they numborad
$4,000 To-day they have abous
$1,000, 600 adherents. The RorE1a'
have increased from 5000. 900 to abo,.s
$4,000, 900, which shows an increase -
about 30 per cent as to numbers. hrt |
decrease OF 70 per cent compared "a
growth OF population. The P~resbyter;.
ans now number $500, 600, ara;ns,
$500, 900 in 1850, about So per cent IN
crease. The Lutherans have increases
90 per cent. The CongregationaI;sts
now number about 1 800, 900 an incraass
OF only 27 per cent, while the popula.
ton has increased rs per cent. Tba
E~piscopalians number 1900, 900. an
increase of 33t per cent in "a years
The Hebrews number about TOO, 900 an
increase of 100 per cent in "a years.
The Friends or Quakers show a falling
off of so per cent, and now number only
100, 600 persons. But the most startling
figures of all are those that relate ia
the Roman Catholics. In 1860 thew
numbered 8, 100 200. That church to-
day claims $500, 900 adherents, q gam
of200 per cent. In fifteen years, should
the same ratio of increase continue.
there will be 25, zoo, 900 Catholics in
this country. No figures are given as
to the skeptics or nonbelievers, but
undoubtedly their numbers have been
very much swollen in the last quarter
of a century. It is a notable fact that
C~alvinists, Unitarians and Quakers, as
well as the sects with definite creeds,
are rapidly losing ground, while the
ritualistic churches, such as Catholics
and Episcopalians, and what may be
called the emotional sects, such as
Methodists and Baptists. are either
holding their own or gaining ground.
These changes in what may be called
the spiritual attitude of the nation, will
in time show itself in the very structure
of our institutions.
The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1885-05-08
The Piute Girrs Debut.

When a girl reaches womanhood
and her family desire to indicare to
the tribe that their daughter has
reached the manageable period she
makes her debut, as you say in Eng
lish, but the Piute girl comes out in an
entirely different way from that
adopted by her white sister. just be-
fore she reaches womanhood her
grandmother has especial charge of
her. To that old lady, whose years
are supposed to have brought wis
dom, the girl is given. She schools
her in domestic duties and explains to
her the mature and Importance of the
wifely relation.
The girl then goes with two older
The Bozeman weekly chronicle. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1883-1889, 1885-02-18
niamarok,s Strength.

Part of the imperial chancellor's SUI
premacy is no doubt due TO the TACT
that he has had time to learn his ousl-
ness. While French foreign ministers
dit like phantoms In last succession
through the Office on the Quai d. Orsay
Prince Bismarck remains immovable.
At London, at Vienna, and at Rome
foreign ministers come and 90; at Ber-
lin there Is no change. Having got his
ablest subject in Office Emperor Will
liam kept him there against all gain
savers. until the unanimous voice of
united Germany acclaimed the wisdom
of his voice. Only at St Petersburg
was there for time similar fixity OF
purpose and continuity of control But
there also time has brOughtits changes,
and at this moment there is not a ma
ton in Europe whose foreign affairs
are directed by the same man who was
in Office when Prince Bismarck became
first minister of Prussia. Another Sc
cret of his ascendancy has been the
prestige born of uninterrupted triumph.
Nothing succeeds like success. and no
man Of our time has been so success
full as the German chancellor. But af-
ter every allowance has been made for
the advantage of positions and of good
fortune there remains the decisive ele-
ment of his personality. A keen in
sight into the vital facts of the subjects
with which he has TO deal, clear per-
ception of the ends to be sought, and
readiness to adopt the most effective
methods by which he could attain
them, and an undaunted resolution in
pressing onward toward his goal
these qualities rarely have been found
in such admirable combination as in the
character of Prince Bismarck. Pal
Mai Gazette.
The Bozeman weekly chronicle. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1883-1889, 1885-02-18
AGiddr aeen.


II Queen Pomare, of the Tahitan
kingdom, is real queen, or, perhaps,
/ should say if The woman who lately
passed through New York on her way
to Tahiti from Paris is really Queen
Pomare, she is what our English friends
would call o rum lott for a queen.
When she was in San Francisco, where
she arrived in a most transformations
way, she emphatically and vehemently
denied being queen, and as she sat
with her feet on The table, putting Gig
arettes meanwhile, she was allowed to
have told the truth. On the overland
train, en- route for New York, the al
legged queen behaved so seandalously
with one of her escort that all doubt Of
her royalty was dissipated. But she
had been to Paris, where she was re-
ceiVed with regal honors, having
medal struck at the French mint as
souvenir of her visit. etc. OF course.
queen cannot lie, and If, IN order 10
preserve her incognito, it was neces-
sary to deny her identity, she was JUS
titled in the use of deceit. But a
sovereign who reigns over what
the Californians call "a one-horse
kingdom" by the grace of the
French republic can hardly pass mus
ter as d blue-blooded queen. - Nes0 York
Times.
The Bozeman weekly chronicle. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1883-1889, 1885-02-18
Changes IN Niagara,s Name.

The name Niagara has passed
through many photographed changes
Ia the last 200 years. In 1851 It was
written Oniogoragh. In 1855 Cover
nor Dongan appeared uncertain about
II and spelled il Ohniagero, 0nyagara.
and Onvarra. Philip Livingstone
wrote in 1920 TO 1880 Octjagara, Jag
era. and Yagerah, and Schuyler and
Livingston, Commissioners or Indian
Affairs. wrote it in 1929 Onjagernoa,
etc. In 1921 II was written Onjagora,
Oniagara, and accidentally, probably.
Niagara, as at present Lieutenant
Lindsay wrote it Niagara in lI5l. 80
did Captain de Lancey {son OF Cover
nor De Lancey) who was an officer In
the English army that captured Fort
Niagara from the French in 1853.
These pioneers may, however, be ex-
cused in view Of the faet-as will be at
tested BY postnaasters some let
ter-writers of to-day seem quite as I'M
decided about The orthcgraphy OF the
worldwide familiar name. 4tanAss
The fruits Of General VOTES gal
LIANT victory in Canada 100 years ago
have been lost, according to Goodwin
Smith. Instead Of being absorbed,
New Franco is absorbing. Herpopula-
ton instead Of reccding is advancing
beyond It's boundaries, and either
thrusting out or swallowing up such
British elements as had found place
within its confines. The British popu-
lation of the city OF Quebec is reduced
to less than 1000. and even the east
ern townships are becoming more
French. AT The same time the feeling
Of French nationality is apparently
growing stronger than ever.
The biggest barn ia Kansas Is the
properly 81 Colonel D. r. Anthony,
The Bozeman weekly chronicle. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1883-1889, 1885-02-18
Food Adnlteration.


The Legislatures now in session are
busily grinding out laws to prohibit
and punish the authorizations of food
and drink. In one bill has been IN
trodueed requiring every keeper OF .
tavern or restaurant 10 put up in his
house a public notice informing his
customers whether he serves oleomar-
garine or butter. 1t is also proposed
70 require brewers to state on thelE
kegs whether their beer contains barr
ley malt or glucose. Other measures
equally absurd are proposed. The
statute books of most of the states are
crowded with laws for the punishment
of fraudulent authorizations of food. but
they nave proved wholly futile. In spite
of the laws this system of fraud is ex-
tending to nearly all the food that the
people consume. There is but one
practical way of successfully combat
ting the iniquity, and this is the estab-
lishment by the state of chemical labo-
ratories for the detection of frauds in
food. These laboratories. provided
with competent chemists, should be
connected with the detective police of
a city, as it is more important that the
regues who cheat the people and pol
son them at the same time should be
detected and punished than ordinary
counterfeiters and pickpockets. Two
or three laboratories in the manufac-
turing centers of the state, where adul.
teration5 are prepared, would do the
business. Whenever the citizen can
take his suspected purchase of bread,
butter, sugar, milk, tea, spices, wine,
or beer to the state laboratory and have
it analysed at public cost, an effective
blow will be given to the business of
adulteration. If the adulteration be
proved to be poisonous, or any way dele
ferrous to health, it should be made the
duty Of the police to seize and destroy
the whole supply to which it belongs.
When the adulteration does not injure
the health of the consumer, but is a
fraudulent cheapening of food, as in
mingling flour with sugar, it should be
confscated and sent to the public in
situations. Other punishment would
hardly be necessary besides the publ
cation Of the list of the manufacturers
of fraudulent authorizations.