The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1905-12-28

NAtnAaf ~ af tI n on b. flANNNN lNAhAANA
the son OF liam. II reckon yo' all doan'
know Philadciphy ve'y well. Sah. aw yo'd
know dat's Lau'cl Hlll cemtc'y!"
We'll. wha, OF THAR asked Field. some
what puzzled At this unlocked for re-
3oindcr. ; 80
;.-Dati wattah doan' hurt US PhilaydeI-
iphians none. sah." replied tho native son.
with an air OF pride. wy mos all OF do
foikses bu'ied theh aw rom ouah ve'y best
fam lics!'
An Error on the Stage.
From an Exchange.
The late Mrs. Gilbert. the veteran actress.
was telling some OF her experiences. Once,
mt a reception In Chicago. she said:
: zone of my earliest speaking parts was
played here In your city. and I was very
nervous. l wal no very nervous In fact.
that on tho frst night I made mr. error
that nearly ruined the performance.
81 had n small part. tho part OF an old
rursc. There was a dying king. n william
u n band OF music In the piece. and the
Rand OF music was supposed TO be very
fine. Tn queens life. indeed. was 20 come
near beng ruined through the strange,
sweet seductivenczs OF this band. Nothing
hut compliments and batteries OF the band
were 20 be, heard on every side.
Well. In the third act. while the band
was playing In best. ! had to rush on and
cry:
stop the music. The king IL dead
What I did In my n-ervousness was 10
rush on and cry:
stop the music. II has killed tho
king"
The Senses OF ths Word.
From the New Orleans Times-Dcmocrnt
3 r. n la'iy in every sense OF the
word" exclaimed Bllfkins.
Then she ls tho most remarkable wom-
an that ever liycd.' replied johnson.
what do YOU mean? Aren't there
plenty of-iad,~s IN the world%"
Yes: hut not In every s"uso O! the word.
Tor instance. ~ the women IL what you
say. she III nos only 4 woman u gOod fam
iiy or OF good breeding and refinement.
lu, she IL also. according to the Ccntury
dictionary. "a sweetheart Cocal United
StatcsJ: "A slate measure about sixteen
inches bread aad ten long. the calcarvoua
apparatus In the cardiac part Of the stom-
pch % the lobster. the function or which
Is the trituratlon OF food.' and ~ she IL
al that, her fortune Is made In the mu-
scum line" e., %
: After that Il was noted tina Bilfklns
usually pruncd down the the remarks tc
she Is a lady" simply. 1T Soc. e..
go -
Giant Railroad Stations.
From the Philadelphia North AmcrlcaL
st. Louis. with it, mammoth rail-
road station, liz to be outdone by a
German city. Consul General Guen-
ther. OF Frankfort. Germany. reports TO
che state department that. according
10 n German newspaper. the new main
railroad station at Leipzig. now being
constructed. will be the largest In the
Morld-thnt is. I'm covered area-920.5l S
square feet. IL will have twenty-slx
tracks. The cost OF construction will
be $780, $40. 900. Of which the city OF
Leipzig contributes s3.s0s. 600. Several
millions are TO be borne by the Ger
man federal p~ostofnce department for
n separate postofhce station. which
will not be completed before 1914.
At the present time n main rail-
road station at 81. Louis, with an area
OF 3g.450 square meters. and ttirty-two
tracks, occupies the first place: fol-
lowed. In respective order. by the South
station at Boston. the st. Lazare sta
ton at Paris. Frankfort the Main,
Dresden. North Railroad station. Bos
ton: Cologne and Munich.
Foster Was q Lucky Reporter.
From Success Magazine.
II requires eternal vigilance for , re
porter To bag his game. leaving % IA
single crane. for escape. IL might he
~ " ~ 80 49, ~ ~
ment Of luck does creep in now and
then. either To a newspaper mans ad-
vantage or TO his ruin. When Reginald
Foster was one of the craft. he be-
came famous m the luckiest OF re-
porters. He was alert. energetic. and
capable OF writing an excellent story
when he landed u. but seemed To have
a mascot perennial and eternal. wher-
ever he went, he stumbled upon a
beat" He hap ened To be reporting
n 81. PatricS's day parade. and went
into the Windsor hotel To telephone his
office, when h fatcfui nre started In
that hosteirv. resulting In the horrible
deaths Of several hundred persons.
Foster abandoned the parade. and
helped rescue the Imprisoned pa
irons Of the burninr hotel. and
that night wrote n graphic account
OF the fire from start TO finish. He
was The nor. available reporter In New
York when the great Hnboken IRE
started. and. hiring n stcanicr In tho
name of his newspaper he saved many
lives hsforr the nrcmen could render
aid. When President Mckinley was
n~ssassina'cd al Buffalo. the FIRST news
came go all the papers I'm New York in
the shape OF n very brief bulletin. A
gruuu 90 newspaper mea Simultaneous
~ asked uf each other Whore " Fos-
teri" Somebod explained that NJ was
then on his vacation ~ N-arraFansctt
Pier. but ever while hr was speak
Ing. a telegram 70 the city editor was
received and torn opcn. II read 'hus:
II was right beside the president when
h was shot. having come to the Huf-
,rtIo exposition 20 cl"sc MY vacation.
WI serI fun drrcriptiv- story to-
night II was Foster
Wha' She Was c~ine.
From thc National magazine.
These two never met wtthou Cpm'