The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1904-12-15

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The prices OF the new winter hats
almost make them deserve the name OF
niliionery.-ohio State Journal.
No more fights new for John l.. SUI.
Ivan. He has disabled his right arm
signing temperance pledges.-New
York Mil.
Another New York woman has lost
q 100000 necklace. They all seem 20
have them to lose down there.-Chi-
eago Record Herald.
Business In Wall street II picking
up. That Is, part OF the participants
are picking up what the others are
iropping.-Chlcago News.
II looks as IL the final charge against
the officers OF the Baltic fleet would be
the familiar one. drunk and disorder
y."-New York Evening Sun.
We know an excellent old lady who
Is n good mother. womanly and desery-
Ing In every way. But she lies ten
years about her age.-Atchison Globe.
Germany Is spending $iO.o00.0O0 to
put down an insurrection In German
Southwest Africa. And still Emperor
William covcts more colonles.-Kansas
City star.
Somebody defines n true American
as one who works his way up from
The bottom. This would appear 20 bar
the late George washington.-Cleye-
land Plain Dealer.
IL Is difficult TO imagine the extent
OF the disaster which would ensue II
one-half OF the Russian navy should
unexpectedly meet the other half on n
dark night-New York Sun.
Russia Is very sensitive about her
prestige. but there Is nothing that will
send IL zeroward faster than n panicky
fleet on the high seas, with all the
world watching.-Boston Transcript.
There are some very economical
people In North Carolina. The Kins-
ton Free Press tells of n man who has
been wearing the same shirt for twen-
~ years.-Raleigh News and Observer.
The dispatches tell us that n man
with n beard n yard long was hung In
Indiana the other day. Then men with
boards a yard long should get shaved.
No use to run any unnecessary risks
Raleigh IN. c. Post.
HAS the cost OF living ~incrcasedi"
is a question that starcs one In the
face from many different directions,
but Il Is not half so important TO n lot
OF people as us the hired girl salts
fedf"-Syracuse Herald.
The terrible slaughter Of soldiers In
Manchurla Is causing a revolt against
wal among all civilized people. The
telegraphic accounts. far short OF real
istIc description. are enough to dlsmay
readers.-Louisville Herald.
ReformIsts are hunting n "cure" for
divorces. We know OF no cure. but n
good preventive might be discovered
in raising boys and girls with less tenn
per, higher ideals and aspirations that
look beyond having n good time
Wilmington o. CO Star.
Regardless OF the loudest canon OF
bishops or laymen, the New York d.
vorce mill turns faster and faster. One
judges grist In three days was ffty-
six cases. But one trouble In New
York Is It's so easy TO get married In
haste.-BJston Transcript.
And nov comes the edict that bow
legged men must be barred from the
navy. II this harsh rule had been en-
forced In 1.-THE rare old. fair old, gold
en- days" many OF the names that have
made us famous would be missing
from our roll OF nautical hcroes.-New
York Herald.
out in South Dakota the farmers are
selling their best beef 10 the Beef
trust for . cents n pound-a record
low price. In New York the trust has
30 fixed prices hat you must pay from
20 to 81 cents for your beef. Beef was
never lower when the farmer has II
TO sell. and never higher 90 the man
who pays the retail butcher blll.-New
| York American.