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Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1901-12-05
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Friday.
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evening.
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Wednesday.
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Wednesday.
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and buggies.
Thesis, of Wauba.
Ester Thursday.
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npation is gone.
old furniture stOr,
Eylss in baby cabs.
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Thursday evening.
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Bush, Of Waubay
on legal business.
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bread for % cents.
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by on legal business!
Ak Meuer and Ed.
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Psarlstein spent
Pasl with his fami
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highland carries
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unit Thursday eve
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Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1901-12-05

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watch for a {
p Ross and find
good watch.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-04-11
Tests for Diamonds.

Recent arrivals from South Africa
have brought, says a correspondent.
the most wondrous specimens Of "dia-
monds'' with them. beautiful to be-
hold, but alas! they would not scratch
glass. while some of the most beauti-
full OF all can be cut with a pocket
knife, says the London News. II is
tolerably simple to say whether stone
is diamond or not, II you can
scratch a sapphire with it, you want no
further test: it is diamond. II you
rub it with wool ORION wool in the
dark and it phosphoresces, it is a dia-
mond. If you look through it at a
light and see only one light, it is most
probably a diamond. THE x rays have
discovered that diamond is nearly.
II net quite, translucent to those rays.
whereas the brightest paste" contains
most lead and throws the blacklist
shadow. And diamond tastes cold,
whereas a paste gem tastes warm. Mai.
Battersby, o. s. D., writing on this
subject, said that Soloroon's words
were very true as applied 70 persons
giving information to chose in posses
sion of precious stones" Very often
"he that increaseth knowledge increas-
eth SORROW"
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-04-11
A LARGE FAMILY.
Christmas Migration of the skaggse

Christmas Migration of the Skaggses
| Through st, Louis, Mo.
Mrs. George Skaggs passed through
| the station last night with her fam
lily, en- route from her home, near
Huntsdale, Mo-, to the home Of her
father, at Pollard, KY, says the st.
Louis Globe-Democrat. The family
consisted of Mrs. Skaggs and ten child
rem, the eldest of whom was is and
the youngest years old. She stated
that she had three other children be-
sides the string which accompanied
her, but that they were married and
settled down" out west Mrs. Skaggs
said that she was married twenty-five
years ago, and that a year ago her
husband died. She continued to work
the farm with the aid Of her offspring
and they managed to keep the place
In prosperous condition. She said
that she had not heard from her IA
Their directly for several years, and as
christmas was coming on" she
thought she would go over and spend
the holidays with the old folks. The
children, when placed in row, look
like stair steps. The big busting crowd
at the station and the changing of the
train bells and screeching Of the
whistles greatly excited the children,
and whenever a new sound greeted
their ears the youngsters would begin
to cry. If Mrs. Skaggs moved from
one part of the station to the other the
entire tribe of Skaggs moved after her.
Between their moving around and their
crying the attention of everybody in
the main waiting room was attracted
and the Skaggs family was the cyno-
sure of all eyes. Mrs. Skaggs said she
was going to surprise the old folks,
as they did not know how many chill
dren she had, and there would be
great Christmas gathering at her old
homestead. The last heard of the
family was when the engine pulling
the Louisville & Nashville train
whistled for the cross-oyer switch and
as the screech died away sound which
was easily recognized as the Skaggs
chorus floated back through the train
shed and died away amid the arches
| of the waiting room.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-04-11
Fierce italian Soldiers.

The Bersoglieri, quartered at San
Reno, are the fleetest infantrymen in
the world. La Marmora created the
corps, asking his sovereign, Carlos
Alberto for 1.-The worst soldiers in your
majestys army" in order that the
general might form them into force
after his own heart. He aimed at. maxi
ing his men sharp and resourceful
mentally and physically thoroughly
active. One of his ideas to these ends.
an Italian general tells me, was to
have all the doors very quietly locked
when the men were In quarter, and to
have the first dinner bugle sounded;
one moment afterward he had the sec
ond dinner bugle blown. The men in
obedience to the call, rushed with their
pannikins in hand, to the doors-to
find themselves locked in. The stand
ing order were to present themselves
Immediately after the second call, get
their rations, and return at once to
quarters. So the men let themselves
down from the windows by means Of
sheets and blankets, their pannikins
held between their teeth. They re-
ceived their portion Of the usual thick
soup and bread. The bread they pock-
eted, but the soup was more difficult
to deal with. Some spilled few drops
Of it; others lost half their supply, but
out of 700 men all but two hauled
themselves up, hand over hand, into
the dormitories. The commander said
on that, and on many other occasions,
II am proud of your agility"
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-04-11
Cavalry Fsncinx Horne.

y \
M. Moulon. assistant instructor Of
fencing and sword practice in the
French army, has invented fencing
horse. a device which IS highly spoken
of as being great Improvement over
all other methods OF teaching young
cavalrymen in the exercise Of sword
and lance. The apparatus advantage
ously replaces the five or six station
airy manikins Of the old system, but
it also answers for half a dozen COM
batants on foot or on horseback armed
"a la matte" or with the lance, watch
ing. striking. pricking. cleaving or
running through with a real convic-
ton that is interesting to observe. The
minister Of war has authorized the
heads Of cavalry corpn to employ this
fencing horse"
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-04-11

You drive nae hard" he said. Shall
I tell you something, that you, and
you alone, are the cause Of my sudden
departure tomorrow, that there are
moments in the life Of man when all
he can do is to run away?
Miss Howard, did not know upon
what rock l was drifting until that ap-
peal of yours to my friendship; and
then, Like flash OF lightning, the true
state of things was revealed to me.
Friendship with you? Impossible!
Friendship could not satisfy me! Had
been Free
Janetta heard him thus far with
eyes that grew larger every moment
with terror and despair.
mo, MOI" she cried: please stop!
You must not say it, and l must not
listen. Forget that you have ever said
or thought it. Ali" she cried, wiring
ing her hands, what have done but
betray my best, my kindest friend?"
He could have taken her hands; but
she snatched them from him and few
from the room. Just outside the door
she cannoned against Mrs Mortimer,
who glanced at the girls red eyes
and dishevelled hair with cynical con.
tempt
lis Captain Merivale in the study"
she asked. Miss Seymour wants to
speak to him before he goes out
Janetta did not stop to answer, but
ran upstairs to her room; and Mrs.
Mortimer heard the key-turn in the
lock.
A very agony of shame shook Janet
| ta's whole frame, and she threw her.
self sobbing on her knees. A mist Of
falsehood and wrongdoing seemed en-
veloping her like cloak, and for the
first time in her life she found it diff
ficult to discern right from wrong.
Her heart was her witness that she
friend to whom she was bound by every
tie of gratitude and affection, and yet
Captain Merivale's unfinished sentence
had awakened an answering echo in
her heart, had reused her to the awful
knowledge that she, on her side, loved
him with an intensity as great as
Clarices own.
IT can redeem the past. / am sure
it's not too late for that" she said,
springing to her feet in fever
ish misery. He has no clue as to my
feeling for him-that is my own Sc
cret; and when he gets away from
me he will return, as in honor bound,
to his proper allegiance. He leaves to-
morrow and l need never see him
again"
(To be continued.)
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-04-11
That Prevents
Countess Cassini,s
Triumph Y

lady. She has lived in his house from
the time she was three years old, and
for ten years in China he bowed to
her capnces. The count is an amiable
gentleman, fond of kittens and child
rem.
Angered by yellow" Journals.
In New York she was amazed to
find her conduct set forth in the
newspapers. She read this through
carefully, and, acting with fine dip
lomatic training, decided she would
return to Washington to convince
the people the articles were not so.
She knew when she returned that she
would have to take her place below
married ladies Of other embassies, and
she was prepared to do SO without a
murmur. She went to the White
House dinner and had famous time
that evening with Minister WI, who
is great company for dinner or any
where else. In fact, he is the catch
of the lot. Mrs. WI was taken out by
Count Cassini. She is also good COM
pany. In short, the Russians were In
luck.
Next day there were society reports
to the effect that the dashing little
Countess had been sat down on again.
when in reality she had been we'll
treated and was delighted. She had
got over her disappointment and was
feeling that she was we'll out of it.
The real objects Of the reports was to
try to rub it i'm
It must be confessed, however, that
Countess Cassini has but little tact,
and, with her uncertain temper, is
sure to have social trouble before long.
The ladies of the other embassies do
not like her; they resent her being
called the belle of the diplomatic
corps. They are laying skillfully hid
den traps for her. 1t is not even sup
posed that she will avoid them; she
probably will not try.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-04-11
Indian Maide11s Inter.
Marry with the
Whites.

raised half-breed child, who was a
great curiosity to the redskins. AS
years sped by other hunters invaded
the domain Of the five tribes Of the
Indian territory and married other
dark-skinned beauties. Intermarriage
in the Cherokee, Creek, Choctaw,,
Chickasaw, and Seminole tribes has
dourished to such an extent within
the last quarter century that the full
blood element is now on the verge Of
extinction. The old men of the tribes
are becoming alarmed and have passed
laws against intermarriage. Some Of
these laws are very severe, almost
prohibitive, in fact. The yohng Indian
women object to these laws, because
they do not want, as rule, to marry
the men of their own tribes. The
Chickasaws are the strictest regarding
intermarriage. A law recently placed
on their statute books requires any
white man applying for a license to
marry Chtckasaw girl, first. to pro-
duce evidence that. he has resided in
the Chickasaw nation two years, next
to furnish credentials as to his good
character and third, to pay $1,000 for
the marriage license. OF course. the
girl has and sometimes takes the priv
ilege of clipping, at the cost of losing
her right in the tribal lands and
money, and of disgracing herself in
the eyes of her relatives. Her head
right is something worth considering.
A right in the Chickasaw nation is
valued at from $4,000 to $4,000. The
intermarriage laws of all the four ma
tions named are about the same, ex-
cepting that the Chickasaw nation
charges $1,000 for license, while the
others only ask $40. There is good
reason for these laws. Many fortune
hunters, attracted by the wealth of the
Indian maidens, have in the past mar
ried into the tribes, gained control Of
large tracts Of land, fostered outlaws,
and raised had families. There were
few happy marriages, and not until the
wise men of the tribes met and passed
an act making every white man show
his credentials before the license was
issued, was there betterment OF these
conditions, The character Of each ap-
plicant was carefully examined before
he was admitted. For several years
thereafter respectable and industrious
white men married into the tribes and
their children married whites. 1t was
so on down the line until today the
eight, sixteenth, and thiry-second part
Indian predominates. OF pure bloods
there will be none IN a few years.
Chicago Journal.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-04-11
Precedence
Is All

There is deal of formality and
red tape in the business of being a
diplomat, and the family affairs of
diplomat also come into the tangle
at times, for the woman who Is the
head of the household of one Of the
representatives of a foreign power Of
ten finds that her social plans are all
upset because her position Is not suffi-
GENTLY exalted to warrant her adj
vances.
One of those who learned that les
son is Countess Cassini, who is the
head of the household of the Russian
ambassador.
Privileges of Matrons.
When Mile. Cassini was in Wash
lngton last winter she learned that,
under the rules which govern official
society, only matrons are given the
privileges and presidents Of heads
Of the households of ambassadors.
AS maiden she must give way to
all the married ladies Of the Diplo-
matte Corps. This was very calling
TO the hlgh-Splr1ted young lady. Her
august uncle, Count Cassini, the Rus
sian ambassador. one of Russia's
strongest men, sympathized with her,
since through his influence she was
made a countess in her own right by
the car while in Russia last summer.
She expected good deal from this,
although just why is hardly clear.
When the first diplomatic event was
announced at the White House she
prepared to assert her rights as a
countess. She received intimation
that, so far as precedent was con-
cerned, she was only Mile. Cassini.
and at the White House matrons
were given precedence over maidens.
This was a blow to the little lady. so
she ran off to New York and imperi-
ously declared that she would never
have anything to do with the unap-
preciative American capital. The
count smiled. He is used to the young
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-04-11
Two Monster LOCOMOTIVES.

The two largest locomotives in the
world have just been placed in opera
ton on the Pittsburg, Bessemer 4
Lake Erie Railroad. They are now
hauling the great Carnegie ore trains
between Albion and Conneaut, O. Fol-
lowing are some interesting statistics
of these steel monsters: Weight, each,
$4,000 pounds. or 1873 tons; diameter
of the smallest ring in the boiler, IS
inches; water supply, $500 gallons;
length. GA feet s inches; working steam
pressure, 220 pounds to the square
inch. The connecting rod alone weighs
LOO pounds. and is made Of armor
steel. A man Of average height can
easily stand erect in the fire box.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-04-11
Beautiful
and Ricb

From the intermingling of the white
and the red blood in the Indian terri
tory there has grown up a race nota-
bic for the beauty ard grace of its
women. The girls of the Indian terri
tory are no more the wild. untamable,
dusky beauties of early Indian fiction
than they are the wretched creatures
found among some of the tribes today
They are to all intents and purposes
on the same plane with white women
OF education and refinement, except
that the strain of wild, strong Indian
blood in their veins gives them tinge
OF richer color, a brighter eye, more
lissome grace than their white sisters
possess. Reckoned in fractions of
blood, these Indian beauties are more
Caucasian than aboriginal American.
All of them, however, are Indians,
politically and socially; they hold
firmly to their membership in the
tribes. Many of them are one-quarter
or one-eighth, or even one-sixteenth
or one-thirty- Indian; but the
red strain is stronger and shows, If
not in some lingering richness of color
or In the molding of the face, at least
in an all but indefinable fascination
and grace. the heritage of a forest
people. Among them one may find per-
feet blondes, with the Indian strain
still salient and palpable And al
though they have succumbed to the
corset of civilization, in almost all
cases they have their less trammeled
ancestresses to thank for the blessing
of well-nigh perfect figures. And one
other of woman's best gifts they pos
SEES; clear and low voices, with not a
trace Of the cultural intonation which
Is common to original Indian ton
CUES. Raised amid scenes of the
bloodless conquest Of their race by the
whites, they look without concern up
on the destruction Of tribal customs
and the thinning out of old blood. To
this last they even contribute, for SO
seldom does one of them marry an
Indian that such an event Is COM
mented upon in the territory as re-
markable. Before the middle of the
last century a Cherokee woman one
day met a hunter in the forest. She
was frightened at his white skin and
fed thinking him an evil spirit. But
he was fascinated by her beauty and
pursued her into camp. where he
learned that she was the daughter of a
friendly chief. The hunter laid saige
to the heart Of the dusky belle and
finally gained her consent to marry
him according to tribal customs then
in vogue. This hunter and his squaW
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-04-11

.
in the land to Mrs. Roosevelt. There
is much curiosity in Washington So
ciety concerning the new leader. There
will not be much seen OF her until next
year. however. The vice-president's
family will not take up a permanent
residence in Washington until next
fall.
Mrs. Roosevelt was a Miss Edith
Kermit Carow. She is now about 3s
years old, and, while not beautiful
woman. possesses an unusual attract
lveness of face and figure. She has an
unmistakable appearance of racial dis
tinction, and has also the simple. gra-
cious manners Of truly aristocratic
woman. She dresses extremely we'll.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-04-11
Roses Replace Violets.

For the first time in many years the
violet has lost its place as fash
ionable flower in woman's spring head
gear. The rose has crowded the mod
est purple flower out.
The milliners say that it is due to a
whim of the young queen of Holland
The rose is Queen Wilhelmina's IA
vorite flower. She wears roses, pink
and white and red, whenever and
wherever she can. and when her we'd
ding trousseau was made in Paris the
makers had to put lots Of roses in her
6nery.
That set the fashion In Paris, where
there are not beautiful royal brides
every year, and all the Partisan MILL
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-04-11
War Fatal to Docked Horses.

The habit of docking horses tails is
held by humane persons in England
to have been one cause of the large
loss of horses in the English army in
South Africa. The regular army
horses have the natural tails, but as
volunteer soldiers are called for in
time of war so volunteer horses are
drafted, and in England the fashion
outside of the army is to dock the tails
of horses. The chief scourge of ami
mails of the African campaign has been
the flies and against these pests the
Central Afric IN Fashions.
Bangles, necklaces and belts made
of fine copper are commonly worn as
ornaments by the native tribes of Cen
trail Africa. Miss Caddick. in her de-
lightful account Of her journey in Cen
trail Africa, describes the ingenious
way in which the natives manufacture
the wire from the rough copper. They
draw it into the finest possible strands
which they twist on hair. The men
cut hole through tree, into which
they put piece of iron with small
perforation in it. The strip of copper
is tapered to point and put through
the hole in the iron. The natives
catch hold of the end with kind of
pincers; then a good number of them
hang on to it and pull it through.
This process is repeated through small
er holes in the iron, till the wire is
fine, enough. All the ornaments are
beautifully made and the wire is ex-
tremely fine and flexible. Some Of the
men wear five copper wire belts, ina
nyetas," as they are called. which At
the body very tightly. The manyetas
are very difficult to buy, and 1 was at
first puzzled to account for this. After
a time came to understand that the
belts, being so small, were extremely
difficult to get of. The poor men re-
quired time, and were obliged to use
a good deal of oil before they could
wriggle out of them. These manyetas
are very heavy, and the weight and
size greatly astonished me, as natives
usually seem to dislike, wearing any
thing tight or heavy. But fashion, in
Africa as in England, makes martyrs.
The women wear thick brass wire coil
ed round and round their arms from
wrist to elbow and in the same way
around theis necks in deep collar,
which must be heavy and uncomfort-
able.-Youth's Companion.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-04-11
Only Mosquitoes. Garry yellow re,e,

The commission consisting Of Drs.
Reed, Carroll and Agramonte, which
has been investigating yellow fever
near Havana, has arrived at two i'm
portant conclusions, first, that the spe-
cific cause Of the disease is unknown,
and second, that it can be carried only
by mosquitoes. Consequently the dis
infection Of clothing and houses is use
less. It has been settled furthermore
that yellow fever IS not due Ito dirt.
Il may occur in the cleanest localities.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-04-11
An Enormo.,, Eel.

A conger eel, nearly nine feet long,
two feet and four inches in girth and
weighing 14S pounds was recently
caught on the beach at Snettisham.
near Hunstanton. England. The fish
erman's attention was attracted to It
I,y some seagulls lowering over shall
low water, where the eel was captured
after along strugglA.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-04-11
Two Products of the Pen,

= w HOHuCt" UI JIG F6ns
In sending to George Bancroft a
specimen of the pork raised ON his
farm in Vermont, Mr.. Evarts wrote this
characteristic note, which was found
preserved among the historians pa
pers after his death: Dear Bancroft:
l send you two products of my pen to-
day-my usual half barrel of pig pork
and my eulogy on Chief Justice
Chase"
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-04-11
Ruskin,s Adyica to Girls.

The recent publication by an Eng
fish club Of some letters of Ruskin to
girls recalls the establishment by him
IT rose fete in the Girls Hig.A
School at Cork. At his suggestion
queen was elected yearly, to whom he
gave q gold cross and a set Of books.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-04-11

The claim is made fur South Dakota
that it has Cor the third consecutive
year produced more wealth per capita
than any other State in the Union. the
total for this year being s106, 500, 900. or
this sum $27 100000 comes from live
stock, $1S,O0O,O00 from corn, $4,000.
600 from wheat and $12,O0O,OOO from
minerals.
the latter for distrib, tion among tha
girls. Pieces Of native gold and silver
and curios of interest and value wera
presented by him to the pupils at
various times. One of his letters can
be read with profit by all women. not
alone girls: 'The chief danger for
young girls in this great today. of
their own and the worlds age is the
temptation to restlessness, whether in
curiosity, pleasure or pride / want
them all to be earnestly, Thoroughly.
thoughtfully intelligent Of what is
close to them, and under their care
happy. not in one day. as the happiest
of their lives, but in the daily qsltent
of their time; and proud in rightly
knowing and rightly doing whatever
they are called upon aot by fame, but
by love-to do for any who love them.
for all who are dependent upon them. !.
Chicago Times-Hera.d.