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The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1908-11-19
Lost the Gloves.

The other day Miss Fannie Lomer
ran acros the road to see an init
mate friend. As Is usual with young
ladies, they had a good deal to tell ons
another. In the course of the con-
Yersation Fannie sale:
II used to think that Gus Simpson
was a nice young man, but I Just hate
him now"
why, what has he done?"
He's treated me shamefully."
"In what way?"
why the other evening at q party
l said to him, Let's play the old game
OF temptation. II / say Yes" or mo"
to your questions. I'll owe you a box
OF gloves, and IL you ray Yes" or
NO you'll give me a box"
Then what?"
well, after the party he took ms
home, and all the way there he talked
as sweetly a could be about love, and
that men should not live alone, and all
that. And when we got to the front
gate, he said, fannie, / have waited
for this opportunity q long time--will
you marry me?' ! whispered Yes in
q low voice; and (here her scbs
choked her voice.. r
"And what did he do Them" inquired
her listener, eagerly.
"He--Just--chuckled and said, You
have lost, Fannie. / take No. 9's: then
laughed with all his might. That's
what he did"
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1908-11-19
FEDERATION OF LABOR
PASSES ON IMMIGRATION

Denver, Nov. 18.-Theexecutive COM
ell made q supplemental report at the
opening OF the American Federation of
Labor convention today. 1t recon-
mend that further Investigation be
made into the matter OF the congestion
of italian emigrants in large cities and
that q conference be held in regard to
1t with representatives of the Italian
government at Washington. .
A resolution providing for the exclu-
sion of all Asiatic races was adopted
by the convention.
The budding together of workmen I'm
freight cars, caboOses and sheds was
condemned in a resolution adopted.
The federation adopted resolutions I'm
favor of woman suffrage, free school
books in public schools, the movement
to uplift the standard OF women work.
ers, abolition OF child labor, indorsinR
the Massachusetts Savings bank insur-
ance and old age annuity system, con-
demning compulsory arbitration, and
the Townsend bill IN that subject now
pending in congress. "I'
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1908-11-19
MELBA'S SON, FALSE
And CRUEL, DIVORCED
Wife, Not Yet 20, Tells Pitiful
Story of III Treatment Almost
from Day Of Marriage.

London, Nov. 1S.-George Nesbit
Armstrong. Nine. Melba's son, was di-
.vorced by his wife, formerly Ruby OF
way, after 20 months of unhappy
union.
A curious circun. stance is that any
one reading the reports of the suit in
the London evening papers would "sv-
er be able to identify respondent az n
son Of the famous prima donna. This
shows what a person with a big pull
can do with the Improbable press
here.
Ruby Armstrong, not yet 20, told a
pitiable story of violence and inidelity
on the part of her husband. She said
he began to quarrel with and i'll use
her within two month after their
marriage. They went to Texas. and
there he beat her and locked her up
In her room. Later they went to Aus
:tralia, where her unhappiness BECAME
intensified.
On their return to London early this
year Armstrong was thrashed by an
irate husband. a Mr.. Hoffman, who
found him with Mrs. Hoffman at the
Hotel Metropole. Hoffman, also de-
manded $35, 900.
Armstrong confessed to his wife and
she Immediately began suit. He put in
NJ defense.
Mmn, Melba arrived in London from
Cardiff. Wales, and her son Is with
her. She regards him as an injured in
nOcent.
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key meat said the old lady by the u
fer. Many a time / seen @ turkey pen,
but in the bresh with twenty or twenty
ive wild turkeys in hit-big fat fellows.
irhe woods was full of 'em then here IN
Missouri"
How did you get them in there?" I
hsked. And then she told me how.
1t seems a turkey has just sense enough
10 follow a trail OF corn along the ground
PIP into q rude br%ush-built pen, but has
bot sense enough to turn himself about
tRnd come back out the way he went in
\ believe Tve seen some folks like him..
Taking advantage Of this, the farmer
built a pen on a slope with one opening
pm the lower side marked by a trail OF
forn leading IN.
Inside the pen this opening was partly
powered by a sort of floor so the turkey
never thought Of STOPPING back under 1t
to go out through the opening at which
be had come In.
We all know that turkeys, like potatoes.
were first seen by Europeans when they
came to America. All our present do
nesticated turkeys are descendants OF the
wild ones that early settlers caught and
tanned, the preference being given to
those originally from Mexico. In the
present domestic turkey is the same wild
desire to roam far away for the bugs and
grains that make his food that his an
'cestor had before Columbus came. Ac-
cordingly, only those raise them who can
give them the range of the whole farm.
This, with their tenderness for the first
Few months of their lives, AXE the
turks" more ard more scarce each year.
Moreover, the number raised each year is
decreased by a disease called ~blackhead.
which sweeps away whole hocks and even
clears out whole counties. No remedy for
II has yet been found.
The modern breeds are bronze or white
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Atehison Globe slahts.

Nearly every person thinks he has a
license to laugh at the man who has
lumbago. .. I.
When q man fails in business. some
people are sure to say, I'll bet he
feathered his nest"
When q boy goes on q visit. his good
ness IL wonderful; he will carry in
wood without being told.
When people try to give the impress
sion that they are rich, 1t IL a dead
sure thing that they are poor,
A mar imagines he IL misunderstood;
that he Is too deep to fathom, though
everyone sees clear through him. Z
A boy gets an range 30 dirty when
he peels 1t that no n but his mother
will take a bite when he tries to be
gallant. .. r
Times are so hard since the financial
furry that men are cutting their mus
taches of that they may smoke their
cigars shorter. ~ .N
After a widow has read the lovely
inscription she has had engraved on
her husbands tombstone. all doubts an
to whether he was q good husband
vanish. .... T..
In the savage countries, as soon as
a ma becomes a burden to himself or
others. he Is put out Of the way; in
those countries, a man OF so is COM
PEELED to walk mighty straight, or get
killed. .' -r.. ,
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Two Additional Members Are
Placed on Board of Men
Who Will Ameliorate the
Condition of Farmers.

Washington. ID. c.. Nov. 18.-Through
cooperation OF farmers and profession
al interests. connected with them
throughout the United States in the
work OF the country life commission is
urged and the appointment Of two adj
ditional members Of the commission,
Charles $. Barrett, Of Union City, Ga,
and William A. Beard, of Sacramento,
CaL.. Is announced in a letter Of Presl-
dent Roosevelt to Chairman Bailey, of
the commission.
The presidents letter follows. dated
November g..
My Dear Professor Bailey: I wish at
the outset cordially TO thank you for the
work you are doing. No more valuable
work for the people of this country can be
done, because no more valuable work for
the farmers OF this country can be done.
NOW, or course, the whole success of the
work depends upo the attitude of the peo-
ple-of the farming people OF the United
states. II they feel an awakening interest
IN what you are doing they should mani
fest it. Moreover, il Is essential that the
FARMERS, the men who actually live on the
SOIL should feel a sense OF ownership In
this commission, should feel that you gem
tlemen In very truth represent them and
are responsive to their desires and wishes
no less than to their needs. 1t seems tC
me-, therefore, that II would be wise to try
anu BET INTO the closest possible touch
with the farmers of the country and to
IND out from them, so far as you are able,
lust what they regard as being the SUBJ
Jects with which 1t is most important that
you should deal. This you are already do
ing by sending out a circular Of questions
and by holding meetings in different parts
or the United States. But perhaps some
thing more can be done.
/ accordingly suggest that you ask the
farmers to come together in the several
schoo districts OF the country and constd-
er these matters. l suggest the school dis
tricts because the school house would be
the natural and the proper place for such
meetings or they could meet at other Gus
omar or convenient places. 1t would
be well If the meetings could be held with
In the next three or four weeks; that is,
before congress adjourns prior to the
Christmas holidays, so that at the time of
the reassembling OF congress early In jan
uary you will have the reports of the
meetings and so will be in position to ad-
wise definitely what should be done. l
suggest that you ask them to meet not
later than Saturday, December s, and you
will OF course, use your own judgment
whether to summon the meetings by cir
cular or otherwise.
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EDWARDS WIFE WOULD
PREVENT MARRIAGE TO
. HARRISoN'S DAUGHTER

New York, Nov. 18.-After tearing
into shreds the photographs of her
husband, Mrs. Baker Edmund Edwards,
formerly Miss Lettie Rowland. Of this
city, left New York last night for Ashe-
Vile, N. c.. with the avowed purpose
OF preventing her husband from we'd
ding Mrs. Sophie Harrison Eastman
this week
. The prominence of the principals to
the controversy and the singular cir
cumstances In the a caused an in
tense commition in the fashionable
Asheville colony, but only fragments of
the affair were reported in New York
until Mrs. Edwards identity was re-
vealed by her departure for the South.
Mr.. Edwards Is the son OF one Of
the w~ealthiest families Of Norfolk. In
1895 he was married to Miss Lettie
Rowland, a talented young singer, and
protege Of Nine. CalVe. She was well
known at that time in musical circles.
Edwards inherited a fortune from his
father and for a few years life ran
on pleasantly with the young couple.
Then Mrs. Edwards began to complain
OF neglect. Matters went from bad to
worse, until about a year ago, when
Mrs. Edwards came to New York to
live with her aunt, Mrs. Schuman, Of
80 West Eighteenth ST.
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1908-11-19
CUBAN ELECTION
LIBERAL VICTORY.
General Jose Gomez Is Made
President by an Over
whelming Majority.

Havana. Nov. 18.-Practically COM
plete returns OF the election show that
the liberal victory was very decisive.
Official returns from 1869 Of a total of
l,49S polling places show that General
Jose Miguel Gomez received 1888 2
votes, against 1882 for General
Mario Menocal, the conservative candi-
date. The liberals carried every prov
To" in the island. Havana province
vent liberal by $4,000. and the city by
1900. The liberal majorities In the
other province, were approximately as
follows: Orient, 100; Santa Clara,
IL, 900; Camaguey, 1,-VJ; Pinar del
Rio, 1900; Matanzas, 5000.
The victory Of General Gomez is gen
orally interpreted as a verdict of this
unqualified popular approval OF the
party of the revolution of 1906. The
liberals constitute the entire new sen
ate with the exception OF two or three
conservatives whose terms expire In
1910. The returns with regard to the
house of representatives are incom-
plete, but the liberals will ontrol the
house in h proportion of w to one.
General Jose Miguel Gomez, presi-
dent elect Of Cuba, Is 53 years old. He
is q native of Santa Clara province,
where he has always enjoyed extra
ordinary popularity n influence. He
participated in two great revolutions,
in the first of which he reached the
rank of major and in the second that
of major general. He was one of the
commissioners sent to Washington to
advise as to a practical method to dis
solving the revolutionary army. Gem
eral Gomez was selected as governor OF
Santa Clara province by the govern
ment Of Intervention and when his
term expired he was elected governor
as q republican or conservative.
In May, 1905, the general was nomi-
mated for the presidency by the nation
al liberal convention, but resigned his
candidacy four months later, giving
as his reason that II was impossible to
continue within the bounds of the law
and laying part Of the blame on the
United States owing to the Plat
amendment. An uprising in Cuba fol-
lowed, which ended with the deposition
Of President Palma and the in~terven-
ton Of the United States.
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PRESIDENT USES PROD ON
COUNTRYLIFE COMMISSION

Throughout this letter where I use the
word / mean also to include all
those who live in the open country and
are intimately connected with those who
do the farm work-ministers, school teach
ers, physicians, editors OF country papers.
IN short all men and women whose life
nection with the life work OF those who
are on the farm. . s-
You know better thar I what topics you
viii suggest. How would 1t do to include
The Efficiency OF the Rural school,
Farmers Organizations" The Question
Roads" Improved Postal Facilities"
Sanitary Conditions on the Farm etc.
Your purpose Is neither to investigate
methods Of farming. You are simply try
Ing to ascertain what are the general eco
nonic, social, educational and sanitary
conditions OF the open country and what,
IL anything, the farmers themselves can
do to help themselves and how the gov
ernment can help them. To this end your
especial desire IL to get In touch with and
represent the farmers themselves.
The commission now consists Of five
members. l shall ask two more gentlemen
to serve upon 1t 80 that the full member
Bailey, New York State College OF Agri-
culture, Ithaca, N. Y, chairman; Henry
Wallace, Wallace's Farmer, Des Molnes.
Ia; Kenyon l.. Butterfeld, president Mas
s~achusetts Agricultural college, Amherst,
Mass; Clifford Pinchot. United States for
est service, washington, ID. c.; Walter
Fl. Page, of North Carolina, editor OF the
Worlds Work; Charles 8. Barrett, Union
City. Ga, and William A. Reard, Sacra-
mento, Cal.
Again thanking you, and with all good
wishes for your success in this great and
important work, believe me, very ~sincere-
~ yours. Theodore Roosevelt.
RaiIey's Reply.
Mr.. Bailey's reply to the president
follows: Il
The commission In country life Is much
gratifed that its efforts have met with
your approval. The public interests IN the
subject seems to be widespread and to be
constantly growing as the purpose Of the
work becomes known. Discussion OF the
inquiry that the commission is making
among the people themselves Is the best
means of arriving at q clear understand
ing of what the country life problems real
ly are. The commission gladly welcomes
your suggestion that all country people
come together to consider these great
questions and hereby requests ali persons
who are specially interested in the welfare
of the open country to meet I'm their usual
gathering places on or before December 8,
to discuss the subjects you suggest or any
question on which the commission is max
ing inquiries. Copies OF the questions may
be secured by writing to the commission
on country life, Washington, d. G.. ...
The commission desires that so far as
possible a general summary or estimate OF
the discussions in all meetings places be
promptly sent to its office in Washington,
so that 1t may have the benefit OF all suR-
Bestlons In preparing its report.
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1908-11-19
JOHN N. BROWN ON
TRIAL FoR MURDER OF
HIS DAUGHTERINLAW

Rockwell City, Ia, Nov. 1S.-Court
convened here this afternoon at 2
O'Clock and the first case on the docket
is the Brown murder cas- which will
probably be called late in this after
rooms session. There Is more interest
centering about this case than any
contest which has ever come before a
court In Calhoun county, not alone be-
cause Of the prominence OF the parties
concerned, but because OF the apparent
brutality of the deed and the advanced
age of the man who committed the
deed. ..E
John NJ. Brown, who killed his
daughterinlaw with an Indian club, Is
past 70 years old. The cause which he
assigned for the crime at the time 1t
was committed On August 20 was that
he feared that she would kill his aged,
invalid wife, against whom she had
made threats repeatedly In her quarrels
with the older Brown.
Quarrels had been many and fire.
quent In the Brown home. and in the
absence Of her husband In Colorado,
where he had gone for his health, Mrs.
G. g. Brown had quarreled repeatedly
with the old people, threatening to kill
them without mercy many times.
A Revolving Deed.
According to the story told at the
coroner's inquest, the quarrel had been
very bitter and Mrs. Brown had gone
upstairs with the avowed intention OF
killing her invalid motherinlaw. when
Brown picked up an Indian club and
struck her on the head, crushing her
skull. He was brought to Rockwell
City the same day and held here with
out bail. M.
Hon. M. F. Healy, well known
throughout the West for his ability as
a brilliant lawyer and scholar, and
Robert Healy, general attorney for the
Illinois Central railroad, and one OF
the most prominent politicians in the
West, are defending the old man, while
County Attorney F. +. Hunter and j.
+. Lavender, of Rockwell City. and
James Parsons, of Des Moines, one Of
the cleverest criminal lawyers In the
state, are lined up for the prosecution.
Money is being furnished for the pros
ecution by the husband and brothers
of the murdered woman and Interest In
the battle is intense.
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A THANKSGIVING IN THE
CONSTAN71WOPE HARBOR,

the states was at stake, and they were
glad OF 1t, believing that the success Of
the dinner would fully vindicate 1t.
According to the treaty OF Paris, af-
ter the close OF the war OF the Crimea,
n OF the articles forbade the passage
through the Dardanelles or the Bos-
phorus OF any m~an-of-war carrying
more than one gun. But the United
States was not party to this treaty, and
so has always declined to be bound by
It.. As a matter OF courtesy permission
Is always asked of the Ottoman en-
pire for our man-of-war to come up to
Constantinople, and 1t Is always grant
ed, regardless Of the size Of the bat
terry.
The friendly relations between the
United States and the Ottoman empire
have never been seriously strained. and
SO 1t was that on this THANKSGIVING
day u captain received the sincere
congratulations OF the officers OF the
empire and the personal fluctuations OF
the Sultan himself. In this, as In many
other ways, the attitude OF the Turks
toward us was shown, for we were ad-
mitted at all times to their most sacred
mosques, their public buildings, places
of amusement, arsenals, workshops,
ships and many functions with q cord
iality which could not admit OF a doubt
Of Its genuine friendship.
We could but contrast the day In
that PARKWAY, strange city where our
ship lay, with the home land and the
home customs. There we would most
likely have had snow and ice; certainly
1t would have been keenly cold, the
trees would have been bare. and the
landscape cheerless. Here It was quite
the opposite, though while 1t is true
that II was not hot, 1t vas pleasant. At
home the white spire and the mellow
toned bell would call the people to
give thanks and the pastor would
preach a sermon to his flock
suited to their capacity, n then they
would go home to gather about the Ia
BILE, father, mother, children and chill
dren's children. On the ship we were
only men, yet men strongly bound to-
gether in a common service OF the
country we loved. Our guests nearly
all were men, who respected M hon
ored the United States.
Here we looked of across the Bos-
phorus to the great Asiatic city of Sou
tart, the most prominent objects being
the huge hospital buildings erected by
that angel OF mercy, Florence Nightin-
gale--to the Princes Islands in the
sea of Marmora, once famous as STRAIT
egic points in the founding OF this
mighty empire--to the beautiful Dal-
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1908-11-19
DROVE 5000 TURKEYS TO
MARKET ONE BIG FLOCK.
Tells Of tbs Days When the Wild Birds Were Taken
10 Market About as Live Stock Is Now---Wiid Turkeys
Were Trapped In Simple Brush Pens---The Turkey
Is a Native American Bird.

or cinnamon brown. and wild birds are
now sometimes caught and put into iocks
OF the domestic in order to give greater
strength to the matches.
Judge Hartzler, of Brookfeld, Mo-, tells
How. turkeys used to be driven to market
in great fiocks OF thousands, and recalls
q time when he, with some help, drove
5000 from the n~eighborhood OF Brookfield
down to Brunswick to be shipped away
In the old days OF river navigation.
Can't you imagine those young men
tramping along over the country roads in
the lovely autumn weather, stopping and
camping at night by the roadside wherever
they might be, while the army OF turkeys
disposed themselves for rest in the neigh
boring trees2 Can't you see them starting
again early the next morning before day
llght-the younger boys tearing Off
through the neighboring fields to round
UP q few e~nterprising old gobblers per-
haps that nave gotten an extra early start
under the fence into the cornfield for a
breakfast OF the rich ripe grain? Can't
you imagine that when meal time came, II
the boys were specially hungry, a bonfire
was an easy thing to make almost any
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az aTANLEY 3

1t was once my pleasure to spend
Thanksgiving day IN q ONE
what out Of the usual way OF things
connected with that holiday. I was at
the time attached TO the United States
ship Alliance, at anchor in Bosphorus,
In front of Constantinople.
When the proclamation OF the presl-
dent was made public, announcing the
day. It was determined by the ships
company to celebrate II in an appro-
pirate manner.
For more than a week before the
eventful day groups Of men went on
UP the railroad toward Adrianople to
farms and little villages buying tur-
keys, chickens and quail, little pigs
and rabbits. and on board the ship the
cooks had their hands full, making
mince pies and pumpkin pies and
doughnuts in most generous quantities.
There was 80 much cooking and roasting
and baking to be done that 1t overtaxed
the Kitchens OF the ship, n much or
II was lone on shore.
We were q ships company OF 1876 men,
and with the guests we expected, ar
rangements were made for a dinner for
400 people. Early In the morning sew
eral boats went to shore and returned
filled with vines, flowers n potted
plants. With these the ship was decor
ated, principally about the engine and
IRE room matches, and the great guns
and howItzers and gatling guns Were so
covered with vines and flowers that the
grim, black old man of war locked as
gay as a yacht with a wedding party on
board. The awnings were spread and
the curtains drawn down snug, as the
day was inclined to be chilly.
Az S o'clock in the morning the dress
ensign was set at the mizzen try-sail
gaff, and the other smaller ones at each
masthead, while running from the
spanker boom aft to the end OF the fly
ing jib boom forward, UP. over and
across from masthead to masthead was
strung what is called a rainbow arch,
made OF signal flags, red. white. blue
and yellow In all sorts of careless com
binations. A very beautiful N unique
effect Is thereby produced. All the for
eign men OF war In the harbor. even to
the Turkish ships. honored the day,
Two long tables were set or the spar
deck, one in each gangway. for the
crew and their guests. The petty Off
GERS had their spread on the berth deck,
while the tables for the officers were
set in the wardroom and steerage and
in the captains cabin. All hands had
entered into the affair with enthusiasm
and good will. feeling that the homo OF
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