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The DeSmet leader. (DeSmet, Kingsbury Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-06-06

TIE question that is now agitatinG
the minds of those interested in the
public welfare of our prospective State
Of South Dakota, is, who shall we send
TO the Sioux Falls convention 1t Is a
question that is now putting itself in
the face Of every voter. 1T IS queS-
tiou that may well disturb the peaceful
serenity of every day life, for 1t is a
matter on which depend the veal or
woe OF our. embryo state. What kind
Office Of delegate with honor to our
county? The delegate should be law
yer. thoroughly NcTScd in the principles.
construction, usage, application and
effect of law. and he able to comprehend
and crltICise former constitutions with
the object of making Improvements.
He should be man of sterling iuteg-
rty. mblemishcd honor, above pOliti-
cal intrgues, and TO whom bribery in
any shape would be an insult. such a
man we should send to represent
us. The county Of Kingsbury should
send delegate capable Of formulating
a constitution, convincing the conven-
tiou of its adaptability and usefulness.
and insisting on its adoption Have
Wc such man. Yes, John y. owen.
Nou all know him, he needs no intro
duction to YOU. hc was one of our first
settlers. he has been identified with
every movement that has been for the
good Of the county, he shows himself to
he a well read student and able prac-
/ titiOncr, his Population is unassallable
I his character is above reproach. he
shows himself to be 4 man of abundant
common sense and stability Of purpose,
ne is the right man for the place. Send
him to Sioux Falls and YOU will confer
an honor on the county and Yourself.
Attend your caucus and instruct your
county delegates TO nominate John \.
owen and return with a clear c0nscicnc
for yOu viii have discharged your duty
The DeSmet leader. (DeSmet, Kingsbury Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-06-06

WE desire To call the attention Of the
citizens of thccomty TO the importance
of organizing their caucuses and get
ting 10 work on the canvas. As
this is non-parti2an election, in
the choice of delegates the honest and
most capable men should be chosen re-
gardless of party lines. The Office is
not lucrative, nor has IT any financial
appendagcs which are SO attractive t.
the ordinary politician But the value
Of the constitutional convention cannot
he measured 10y dollars and cents. II
means The future life Of South Dakota,
It's aunihilation, that is rs a separate
commonwealth from North Dakota.
In the selection of delegates we should
bear in mind that kingsbury county IS
Il representative one and it would he in
tolcrabic in her 10 Send two votes only,
but what we should do is TO send two
whose minds are stored with legal lore.
who are able to construct Il clause. who
are able to present that clause to the
convention. and who can convince the
convention OF its duty 10 proceed asthey
direct. We have such men in our midst
who are capable Of directing such an
asscmhlage. and VI are sorry TO say we
have some not capable or directing a
dog fight.
The DeSmet leader. (DeSmet, Kingsbury Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-06-06
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In sealing a letter it is not fashionable to
use the monogram
The revival Of sealing wax has lei 10 the
invention of pretty little spirit lamps, which
are quite an adjunct 10 a handsome desk or
writing table
In mpnpgrams, srript is used, and there Is
an end b. the pulling interlacing of letters.
This simple marking is in good taste and re-
commended by all frst-claSs dealers. The
stamp costs - cents, an1 Is also uSel in seal.
ing, rel aud olive wax being again used.
There are score, OF fancy devices and de-
signs in letter paper FlockS Of birds, do
mestic and wild feathercd creations OF good
and evil omen, scorpions. beetles, insects,
reptiles and fish, herds of small cattle, cat.,
tig,r., CANNES, ferrets and sly little squir
rels, and, indeed, almost every animal III
zoology in some shape or form seems 10 be
thrown on the marSet in company with
flowers garden vegetables, cherubs. angels,
and "A host Of other creatures that belong TO
mans land. Clover-leaves, forget -me-nots,
hearts ease, bleeding hearts, and sprigs of
rosemary, myrtle, yew and weeping willow
are allowed 10 ornament the tops Of paper
designed and intended for sentimental
Youths
The DeSmet leader. (DeSmet, Kingsbury Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-06-06
South Dakota Teachers Association.

To superintendent, Teachers and Schoo
Officers
The second annual meeting Of the
South Dakota Teachers Association will
convene in Huron, July l. 1888. The
spirit developed at lis first meeting, and
the interest that Is manifested in It's
coming meeting, indicate Il larger at
tendance, and afford much encourage
mcnt to those who have the matter III
charge
A rich program is rapidly forming,
including repre- scntatiyes from all grades
Of schools, and topics of living interest
to all classes Of educators.
The first exercises Of the meeting will
be held on the evening Of Tuesday, July
I, and will consist Of an address Of wei.
come 10y Hon. II. J. Rice, mayor Of the
city, and a response in behalf Of the
Association by It's president, Hon. w.
II. II Bcadlc, who will be present
throughout the session with his irrc-
pre-sihlc and contagious educational
spirit Music will abound.
Hon Geo, Il. Armstrong, president Of
the board Of education Of Huron, will
deliver lecture on Wednesday evening
entitled cone Social sham" An address
will be provided for tie closing evening.
\ complete program Will be put in
cnc@ation as soon rs possible, and when
received, you arc urged to ponder the
topics presented, and come prepared to
impart your ideas. Your interest will
be proportionatc with the activity with
which you participate in the exercises.
Let all come 10 counsel together for
the welfare Of the profession and for the
advancement Of education,
Organization, united efforts, inter-
change Of ideas and professional i'm.
provcmcnt arc duties which every
teacher owes 10 his calling.
Respeci(uIly yours,
JAMES ;. BIsIIOr,
Sec'v Of Association.
The DeSmet leader. (DeSmet, Kingsbury Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-06-06
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Ia,hlons In Ialsc Hair.

lNcW lork SUM-
The fall and winter styles for ladies' hair
dressing are very becoming. The hair is
slightly waved AMI loopel in graceful bows
on the top of the head; tho figure being
the favorite style for ordinary wear, few
light curla fringng the nape Of the neck.
Ladies who think it becoming may add a
long wave, curlei about two inches at the
end pinned ia the center Of the back hair,
falling gracefully over the shoulder so a, to
be- seen from tha front; another short, wavy
curl Imod over the long curl, 50 that the
end stops at the napo Of the neck. This is
quite new, and look, well on long neck.
The front hair - arranged in light curls or
waves, in the style most becoming e tho
face Front coilfures, made Of waves and
curls woven on Invisible lace, DIRE Ssed in diff.
fereDt styles, are becoming regular articles
Of wearing appeal, some ladies having
change every day in the week.
The DeSmet leader. (DeSmet, Kingsbury Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-06-06

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II was fair young atten liant at this same
Astor wedding who propos eel something quit,
revolutionary in sOc.ety. 30, had "A pretty
good time, she said, but was awfully bored
by three men who were 80 years old apiece.
There ought TO be some severe means taken
20 free girl, from the old beau boros. Wh5n
a woman gets past ~, and isn't married yet,
she gives it up, and let's the young fellows
alone, or, il she does undertake TO impose
herself upon them, they don't hesitate 10
Stub her. But look at the case Of we girls
We're not allowed - turn our backs on the
ante-deluvians who beSet us, but are by po-
lite usage, compelled to display IN smiles the
teeth which we'd like 20 bite tssm with. We
ought 10 be empowered 10 abolish them
save when they are millionaircs AMI mar
riageable."
The DeSmet leader. (DeSmet, Kingsbury Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-06-06

II is said that Japanese women havs pcyes
sseh and do not know tho use VI pins.
The DeSmet leader. (DeSmet, Kingsbury Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-06-06
Georgia Cracker.l


During recent picnic on the banks of the
Chattahoochie some Atlanta bloods at
tempted to engineer skiif race. When the
struggle was at its best one of the skiffs up
set and emptiei its two occupants into the
water There was Immediately a great
panic AMI effort 10 save the two men. One
old party on the bank capered up and down,
yelling at every jump:
Save that red-headed man! For heavens
sake land that red-headed man! Great
Scott, don't let that red-hcaded man drownl'
And when they were both saved ono of
the rescuers said TO the old pary:
WAS that young, red-headed man your
soni'
Not by a blank sightm
"Some relation probablyr
Mary prob -
"Well, why were you SO anxious to have
him saved, them"
"Why the blank fool has got a SIC, 900 life
policy In the company representa-
The DeSmet leader. (DeSmet, Kingsbury Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-06-06
Democratic Convention.

4 mas, convention Of the Democrats
Of kiug,buly county will bc held at the
Court House at De Smet, Wednesday,
June i, 1855, at O'Clock ?. M, for the
purpose of selecting delegates to the
Constitutional Convention to be held mt
Sioux Falls Sept 3, 1855 and such
other business rs may come before the
Convention
CHARLES KNEcHT.
Chairman Democratic Central Com
mtttpp
The DeSmet leader. (DeSmet, Kingsbury Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-06-06

professor, what do you think about the
dark spots ON the moolr asked student at
the University of Texas, of one OF the teach
crs 20
IL am sure that the spots ON the moon arc
che result OF earthquakes" was the reply.
The DeSmet leader. (DeSmet, Kingsbury Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-06-06

Washington Irving: A curtain lecture Is
worth all the sermons in the world for teach.'
ing the virtues of patience and long suffer-
ing
The DeSmet leader. (DeSmet, Kingsbury Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-06-06
Scientific Theory.
Texas Siftings.l

The crown princess OF Sweden is said 10 b
the uSlicst princess in Europe.
The DeSmet leader. (DeSmet, Kingsbury Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-06-06

John Swinton says the saddest sound heard
il New York is the hammcrins Of the tough
lpef- steak set on boariinc-house b.cs
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1885-06-04
Observation-Disclosures, can.

A monopoly enjoys rights, privi-
leges aud powers belonging to, but
taken from the people, The inter
ests OF monopolies are adverse to
those OF the people. The privileges
granted them and denied to the peo-
pie, tend to build q law-created and
law fostered aristocracy Of wealth,
to array capital against labor and
to divide the people into classes
Already there has sprung up In this
country under the fostering care OF
the government an arsstOcracy Of
wealth, more despotic in its nature
than exists in the old world.
1t holds in its grasp the labor OF
the country.
II compels the people to pay
tribute to it.
1t is constantly asking, claiming
and receiving additional strength to
rob and Cypress the people at their
expense.
Having got possession OF the gov
eminent, it appropriated to itself
sufficient OF the public domain to
constitute first class empire.
1t practices the most outrageous
extortions and unjust disctmina-
tons in its monopoly Of the means
OF transportation. It has imposed
upon society the most unjust system
Of taxation and discrimination ever
legalizcd by legislation.
1t has usurped the monetary pre-
rogative Of sovereignty, thereby
placing itself in absolute command
OF the Industrial forces Of the coun-
try, with power to direct The profits
OF labor and production into such
channels as will best serve its inter
ests.
1t has organized the courts OF the
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1885-06-04

A correspondent OF the Dootoa
Transcript writes thus from Paris:
When We had been there o week No
naturally expected clean sheets on our
beds, but We found il was the custom
Of the house 10 change the sheets only
once month"; have since heard that
Il il the usual custom in France even
in nice housed Descendants Of Puri-
tan great-grand-mothers, can you b.
lieve it, We submitted, however. We
also refrained from reproach when
Amelia, smilingly and innocent Of harm,
after depositing on the table our bowls
Of chocolate, proceeded to draw our
breakfast rolls from her pocket. Il
vas better TO conform to the custom Of
the country If possible, and when We
tried very hard, Is in this instance, We
found We could. There was . line
Of forbearance. however beyond which
I could not 20. I imagined Amelie say
ing to herself. sYes. yes, wash, scrub.
scour, and rinse! Is madame already
an angel that she must have everything
about her perfectly clean and pure? p
u it possible that Americans have finer
senses than their French sisters?
Madame protested that everything in
my room was a. c'eap as it could lie;
and ! found dirt in all the creases of
crockery. Amel . brought me the slop
pail In . triumph Of success III deodor-
ixation; il was simply nauseous. The
table was oxoellent in its.wnv, French
way, Of course and breakfast and dinner
were much alike. A con two kinds Of
hot meat, vegetables, said, Tread and
cheese sometimes pulling or custard,
fruit but not in abundance, wine, but
no ice watcr-always always those
dreadful little "biscuit," dry Is chip
and = resting place for flies NIL through
the sasly pert Of the meal. When the
hot weather came on we longed for tho
cool chicken salads. cake, lemonade,
and ice-cream lunches of home. / had
no idea that the French were 30 fond
Of sausage which We associate with the
Germans; rather but ! think we had
Them u some form almost every day.
We endured the tough. close breath Of
England in the patient hope Of better
things whom We should reach France.
The Parisian bread that was set before
~ had > crust - thick and almost ~
hArQ % a. oyster shell, and il / say as
1irty, TOD shall NOT much exaggerate;
Inside il vas full 81 large holps and had
. mere or less SOUR flavor. BY ihquir::
ing and persistent research we found At
some Of the bakers shops kind Of
small cubical lost, that was,-as one Of
our party expressed it,-"much less in.
delicate." Strange to say, this was
called Englisk bread. We have come
TO the concluhion that French rolls. %
we'll g French roll pans are . Yankee
invention.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1885-06-04
Will He Pocket The 81, 900?

When Gen. John Alexander Logan
congratulated the Illinois Legislature
on its choice OF a Senator, he mod.
estly expressed himself as follows:
hope have SO acted and deported myself In
the position before as to bring no fiscredit upon
myself, state ana couAtry, and my past history
Is the only guarantee can give Of my future
course.
Since Gen. Logan asks for yer.
dict on his public career, we are oh.
liged to say that there is at least one
important matter that needs clearing
up.
Gen. Logan's last term as United
States Senator did not expire until
the 4th Of last March. He left Wash
ington on the 4th Of January, and
did not return. For q period OF ex-
actly two months he not only neg
lected but wholly abandoned his
duties us Senator, and gave his en-
tire time and undivided attention to
electioneering in Springfield and in
Chicago, his only object being the
promotion Of his own political for
tunes.
What VIC should like to know, be-
fore acceding to Gen. Logan's ex-
pressed belief that he had done
nothing discreditable, is whether he
has refused to draw Ills salary as
Senator for two wonths between Jan.
4 and March Of the present year?
or il having drawn the money mad
veriently, he intends to cover it back
into the Treasury, or to contribute it
To the conscience fund.-
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1885-06-04
being paid this winter.

being paid this winter.
For about ten years after came
to this country Il was the general
opinion OF the south and east that
Minnesota twas to cold for corn"
But multiplied millions Of bushels
OF Minnesota corn are now annually
heaped on the grave Of that mistake.
Then, after over twenty years OF
wasteful. slip-shod habits Of wheat
farming, TO which the northwest had
been addicted, it came to be said
that the soil up here was becoming
too much exhausted for wheat pro-
duction. Minnesota, finding her
reputation at stake, replies In 1884
with more millions OF bushels and -
large an average per acre as In any
single year since the state was set
tied.
We next hear that India and the
Soudan and all the rest Of the world
are on the way with their soft wheat
to extinguish our mo hard" But,
as in the past, this year with it, low
prices will also 60, and be followed
by . lessened acreage OF wheat cul-
ture on lands which can grow only
the softer, cheaper varieties, and the
priced lands OF the northwest,
where the high priced No. / hard
wheat is at home, will again come to
the front, and the wheat belt will
move on till it passes into and be-
yond the valley OF the Saskatohe.
wan and reaches al last the line
where frosty summers put their ban
on its further progress. But the
great-grandchildren Of this gener-
alton will all be dead before wheat
raising ceases to be profitable, even
in the farthest rear Of this great
procession. The old battle OF the
survival Of the fittest" may and
doubtless will have to be fought
over again on these northwestern
prairics, but we have q corner on
tn best whe at OF the world up here,
and when 1t comes to the survival"
we are not at all alarmed about who
will be the 'sllttest."
D. 8. B. JOHNSTON.
st. Paul, Mimi. January8
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1885-06-04

The list might be extended, show
ing similar OF affairs throughout
the entire navy. It Is, OF course, to
be expected that war ships will need
frequent repairs, and sometimes
costly ones, but it Is q singular fact
that in the case OF the vessels re-
paired under Robson and Chandler
the greater part OF them were prac-
tically less serviceable after the
repairs" than they were before. The
hundreds Of millions spent by the
government for these repairs result
ed in nothing. John Roach and the
various jobbers at the navy yards
were given opportunities to get rich,
but the government got no navy.
The so.called Robson monitors
now on the stocks, on which millions
have been spent and work on which
was suspended by act of Congress,
can never be OF service. They are
huge :ron monsters set up for the
purpose OF spending money aud
never intended to float. Good judges
pronounce them valneless. No
greater crime against the govern
mcnt has been committed since the
close of the rebellion than this
muladministratiOn i'm the Navy De-
partment. 1t is more than theft, be-
cause it has weakened. disgraccd
and endangered the republic.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1885-06-04

Common thieves are called felons.
Lsw-sustained robbers are called
capitalists.
Property taken from its rightful
owner, without the sanction of law, ID
called plumber.
That filched by Law is called capital.
The accumulation Of millions Of dol
lars by ono man is called thrift, good
management, and wise financiering.
To supply SO piece, for each per-
son in the nation is called Imitation, I"
and calculated to lead to extravaganza
and dissipation.
In 1865 our currency volume
amounted tn over 600 apiece, for every
man, woman. and child in America.
And 1t was all among and in the hands
Of the producers and suppliers Of la
Dor and wealth. We hadn't half enough
then. There was not man but wanted
and needed 500. But business was
lively; men prospered; labor was we'll
Ind profitably employed, and women
Ind children did not go hungry.
Now. outside the banks, the United
States Treasury, and the commercial
centers, there is not 80 per capita, and
still Cleveland, Manning, aud Wall
street swear SILVER knaii go. WnnL III
the country going to do about it?--
Chicago Erps ess.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1885-06-04

A mixed currency-gold and paper
moEey-is one Of the superstitions
that has been handed own to us from
q remote past. We bave been taught
to venerate 1t because Of its antiquity
It is a moss back delusion, therefore
We must coddle 1t, and nurse It, and
keep it alive. A gold basis Is q
mighty uncertain quantity. When
everybody wants il It is not to be
had. The reason is obvious. You
cont redeem three dollars Of paper
with one dollar OF gold. The bankers
tell us that It is feasible and practic.
able, but It has never been done. A
mixed currency had the seeds o.
failure planted In its composition
from the very start. II you want to
build up something that will tear it.
self TO pieces, IN short meter, let 1t be
. mixed currency. -lVidette.