The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1907-10-03
How a boy hates to confess.


How a boy hates to confess.
Everybody laughs at militiamen.
Extremes of e make more liars
than profit and gain.
An Atchison man is so worthless
he cannot even get up a good ex-
cuse.
1t is noticeable that when a man
is unusually accurate, he likes to tell
about 1t.
AS a rule, IL a man visits his first
wife's grave, It Is because his second
wife takes him.
The average town is never as un-
satisfactory as when providing enter
tainment for a loafer.
What has become OF the old FASH
icned person who called a wagon filled
with household goods a ''iittin'?"
Hes SO bad that he would corrupt
q reform school," declared a police
man this morning. In describing a
Widowers do one thing better than
widows: they don't take their children
with them on their second wedding
trip.
There will always be people who
will visit In a business Office, the same
as there will always be others
who will talk loud when the baby is
asleep.
What has become Of the old-fash-
toned m who thought II a waste
OF time to a anywhere except In
church?
Don't slop over in giving compli-
ments. A slopover compliment is never
taken seriously, and is liable to be
Even the man who paid for the par
lor furniture isn't to be trusted alone
with it. and a jackknife and moth
ing to do.
Every young man in love with a
pretty and incapable girl. underesti-
mates the time 1t will take to learn
how to cook.
There isn't much in the world but
work. Even people at summer resorts
must do a lot Of rustling around to
have q good time.
Are you kicking yourself out OF a
job? Many people do IT. Are you will
ing to accept a poorer job In order that
you may have your fool way? Many
people are.
do you remember what Owen Mere
dith said?' a woman asked an Atchi-
son nan today. mo-" the man re-
piled, II don't remember II, and don't
care to hear It."
IT don't taxi much stock in the
stories told by a man of his enemy,
and most Of the stories you hear have
that sort OF origin. I have invented so
many myself that I know they are not
very reliable. PEARSON Irvine.
About the time when q mar reaches
the age when he has time to read, his
experiences have been so much moro
that he can't n interest In them.
An Atchison man who is small in
stature says a little a is always
handicapped; that a big man starts
with an advantage. II a man has a
large frame, people think he is big
until he proves he is little.
1t is whispered around town that
Mrs. Lysander John Appleton will sue
her husband for divorce. 81 learned re.
Gently" she is reported as saying to
a friend, that John has no life insur.
ance. I'll not live with q man who
carries no life insurance"
Mrs. Lysander John Appleton always
looks on the bright side. Recently a
fire destroyed her home and all it's con.
tents. WELL" she said philoso.
phically next morning as she gazed at
the debris, "at least we saw one fire
we didn't have to break our necks to
run to-"
What an outrage a wolf is! Women
work u k slaves to raise chickens and
wolves steal them. A wolf Is a ioafer;
he produces nothing, but on the con-
trary is a continual pest. Yet he flour.
ishes. Every mans hand is against
him, but he is increasing in numbers.
and has a chicken dinner every day:
when he misses q chicken dinner he
has a turkey dinner. Laws are made
to exterminate him, but he gets along
There Is no remedy against a good
many other evils. We must submit to
them and look out. There are many
useful men. who are burdens to the
industrious and worthy, yet they are
impudent and manage to attract a good
cal OF attention.
The long illness had ended In death:
the undertaken had come and gone
n the family sat alone in a room
off h one in which lay the corpse
We nave our worst ordeal before
u.s." said the widow. 1--WE have sur
fered ~prfVations, hardships, loss OF
sleep, and now bereavement, but the
climax Of all is yet tc be faced" The
children ley what she meant. Cant
we avoid it," they suggested. Cant
we bury him after night so that no one
will know" 1T is no use," moaned the
widow. For twenty Il years nv
husband and / have made IL a ruI,
e to permit the newspaper to print
our name, or furnish 1t with an item
n now he has had to die and give
1t one" Whereupon her means were
distressing to hear. (From a news.
paper reporters dreamy