Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1893-08-17

though doubtful as English grammar, and
states but the facts. Far western people
occasionally indulge in sarcastic remark
on the propriety of having such a struc-
ture here in view of the administrations
present attitude on silver, OuJ unfortu-
nately very few of them are here. An
other object of great attraction is the pict-
ure of a prairie farm, composed of grain
and grasses, in the Illinois building, and
people from that state tell me taat the
original design was by an Illinois girl of
IL, who did considerable of the work.
IN the Anthropological building are
some rare curiosities of ugliness. do not
refer to such common things as masks
and mummies, skulls, skeletons and abo-
riginal drawings. These are just ordinar.
lily ugly, but the Indians of the far north.
west have sent some totems and funeral
poles which are superlatiyely hideous.
Among these sits an old Englishman
named John Dean, who passed forty years
of his life in British Columbia, Alaska
and t~hereabouts. His collection comes
chiefly from Queen Charlotte's island, and
everything in it is ugly beyond the power
of language to describe. When a man
dies on that island his relatives hollow out
a tree trunk and slide the corpse, enclosed
in many bark ~wrappings and q rude box,
into it and then plant the trunk on end in
the ground. They cover the top to pre-
serve the wood and on that place an image
to scare away the evil spirits. If those
shown here do not scare them, they must
be spirits of some nerve.
1t wo9ld be rude, if not unmanlv 20 sai
uo"h ene po"iuo managers among
the cur..oosltiea, but IL certainly fills more
space In the city papers just now than any
other exhibit on the grounds. Ii has
shown more kinds of hysteria than a MAJ
can understand or describe, has displayed
a marvellous variety OF tears and kissing
and making up preparatory 70 quarreline
again and has outdone the Irish parlia'
ment of 1869 in vituperative eloquence
One of he ladies says h viii compile
and publish a work on the boards trou
bles. If she writes as she talks that book
will sell The public is all the more in
terested in it from the fact that nobod!
understands what the trouble is about
1t certainly began in dissatisfaction will
the juries of awards, but the present con
ditions and merits of il is zone of then
things no feilah can find out"
Another popular curiosity is the babies
annex to the Woman's building. Iva.
attracted into 1t by a series of unearthl.
yells and supposed all the infants ha,
turned loose at once. Ii was all the doing
of one little darky. He was in a raile,
space by himself and no one paid TIN
slightest attention to him. All the prettl
p~laythings and the nice clean hottie o
warm milk had no charms for him. III,
wanted to get out. He would craw
around, lay hold of the railin!
and make n desperate effort {,
raise himself, then failing woulC
fall back and give vent to yells that mad
the observer wonder how so much CT,
could be evolved in the little corpus of
baby not a year old. 1t was symbolic O
the plant os a race, for all the other kid
were happy as CLAIMS at high tide.
Everything was 81 neat and SO nice
The little cribs, the clothing, the soft ma
terials ON which the infants tumble,
about and the nursery bottles were a
clean as care could make them and tn
children were certainly an assorted LOT
they looked so pink and bright-eyed an
rosy and healthy. All the latest and bes
appliances for the care and nurture @
children are in use and each child receive
two meals and the best of care all day 70
the trifing sum of IS cents. Yet very fe,
visitors avail themselves Of it. Wear
women carry their infants around, or d
vide the task with their husbands. Oeci
~sionally in any building one hears til
wall of a wearied infant, though rot otter
for nearly all children are good when ca
ried about to see things, and very ofte
n sees a wearied mother stretched on
on the grass while the baby plays abou
her. Perhaps it Is sentiment whic
makes most of these retain their infant
and perhaps they do not know how yer
safe and happy the darlings would be i
the public nursery. j.. II. BEADLE.
A man III Williamsburg, n. Y, ha'
formed u collection of the drums o
all countries, including Europe, Asia