The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1906-01-26

DuU maven u gwen huy UuVS tOt IuC
performance of the same. They
make big claims of "reform," but the
leaders :orget that a mae VITO IS
personally mean cannot be officially
good.
The STANDARD is IN receipt OF a
very interesting and instructive little
volume entitled ga Bret History OF
South Dakota" from the pen of
that able historical writer, Duane
Robinson The book is just out of
press but we predict that 1T will
soon find a place in every school
library ard for that matter ia every
home in the state. 1t is a condensed
though comprehensive HISTORY of
South Iakota from territorial days
AS a protection tor Indians Ia the
future. Representative Burke VI
South Dakota has introduced "A bill
which he SAYS IS calculated 10 met
demoralizing conditions AMONG the
Indians growing OUT OF a recent de
clsion of the supreme court, in viii ch
1t vas held To be lawtil TO sell liquo r
TO an Indian VINO holds land under
allotment The bin postponeS Tor rs
yeas the citizenship of lndiau, who
shall hereafter acquire Ian,l> hrolgh
allotmt MT.
According TO a decisioD handed
down by the United States supreme
court a few days back, the fellow who
run a gambling iolnt or permits gam
bling on property under his control
is liable for avervcent lost.bY any per-
son who plays In any gambling game.
This declsion ought to etfecLually
put a stop to gambling almost every
where. All the man Who loses
money in one of these places has to
40 is TO bring suit and prove his loss
and the proprietor will be forced ia
make good. Watertow Herald.
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THE glory of the farMer IS that
in the division or labor. II Is his
part to create. All trade rests at
last upon his primitive activity He
stands close to nature; he obtaiOs
from the earth the tread and the
meat. The food which was not he
causes to be. The first farmer was
the first man, and all his historic no.
bility rests on possession and use of
land. Men do not like hard work,
but every man has an exceptional
respect for .tillage and feeling that
this Is the nrlgiual calling of his
race; that he himself is only excused
FROM it by some circumstance which
made him DELEGATE il fur time TO
other hands. Ii he have not some
skill which recommends him to the
farmer, some product Tor which the
farmer will give him corn. he must
himself return into MS due place
among the planters. Aud the profess
SION has in ali eyes IT'S ancient charm,
as standing nearest u God, the first
cause" Ralph Waldo Emerson.
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The Kansas City journal vouches
for the prevalent Eng,,sa belief that
the lynchlng habl, IN quite an
American custom, nuncher know. At
recent dinner IN L,ndoa conver-
yersatinn turned on this subject and
IL appeared the general opinion that
IL America Il rope was the chief end
man Finally the huStoAs turned
t, an American. who had taKen nc
pau in the conversation, and said:
You, sir, must often have seen
these affairs " 'sYes.' he replied,
..we take u kind OF municipal pride
in seeiHg which city can SHOW the
9 . e.
greatest, number II lynchiBgs yearly
the night before [ sailed for Eng
lann was giving a dinner to a party
intimate friends, when a colored
waller spilled a plate of sour over
the GAVIN Of a lady at an adjoining
babe. The gown was utterly ruined,
and the gentlemen nf her party al
once seized the waiter, tied q rope
around his neck and at signal from
1 the injured ladv swung him into the
AR" sHorrible:" said the hostess,
with: u isnudder. And did you act
nally see this yourselt?' ssWeli. no, y
said the American, alphabetically.
81 ust al that time was down stairs
\: king shot at The chef for burning
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