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St. Paul tidende. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1902-1928, 1908-03-13
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f%orretning / &ooeopagtsgaoe 6 blep
forleoen Scot forepet Snobruo, i6et
ct Sernpengeifab er opbruot % Sssno-
boloet, c. 1000 @r., lom maj, life
bapoe tnroet iette / 8anfen al &en-
Jpn til &engefriien, itjoaIet.
Sn66ragne @fi1obag-
t e +. Mationalbanfen / @iebenbaor
bar fra gamle Gage babt militer
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peo Solmens &anal og ligele6es peo
Stlial / Marbus. Sfglge
fgl. &eiolution bill 6is1e Sfil6baa.
ter blipe t~n66ragne til guguit s. 81.
St. Paul tidende. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1902-1928, 1908-03-13

9anf &i96 / Morge-
6or @olborg &om11neS %egning er
to al &omune ltprets Meolemmer og
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tebus reiit til Morge for at un0erig=
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&jp0= og &reotl1refsporten fra set
norolige Spllon0 til Norge.
St. Paul tidende. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1902-1928, 1908-03-13

trtif 2Ds og olle Nnti6s 8efpemme
ligbeoer.
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men bapoe tilbragt 6eres meite Sis
paa 9anoior0en = / Sugtbufet. 9a
Sc itoite Gang tom 11o al bette, ilog
Sc Jig iammen og 6rcp &rofesiionen
/ itor Still. Mapnlig biemipgte Sc
26en &angs &oteller / &igbenbapn
og ,itial ON @atte,n fra Sc lopenoe
- eu @ang gioroe Sc ct &11p paa
1000 Ser. fra en- 2an6man6. Ser
efter tog 6e paa &un6reiie meo Gam
per til Narbus. @elfleote bar &c.
og ingen ifuloe one, set bar ct Ear
genrene GorbrD6ere, Ser leieoe Jig mo
paa ct al Marbus be0re Soteller,
bporfra Sc NOT bar giort forifiellige
9treiftog ITO i 8pen, forepenoe 1aa.
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ser. De bIeb ct 8ar Gage | SUI
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fortiatte ifpn61omlt &eiim til Belle,
bpor oe optraa6te 1tu6er ct mtoet
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The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1908-02-06
WASHINGTON MONUMENT IS
DOOMED: FILL SHAFT WITH
CONCRETE, SAY ENGINEERS

Washington, ID. c., Special: Is the
washington monument liable TO crum-
BILE and topple over one OF these nice
days? There is declared to be con-
Germ among engineers who have stud
led the structure lest something Of the
sort may happen.
The monument is $50 feet high, and
when finished was the highest struc-
ture, reared by man. I'm the world.
though several have dwarfed 1t since.
But IL is everywhere known as the most
magnificent column ever reared.
The monument vas begun a long
time before the civil war, and some
thing like $50 feet OF II constructed.
Then IL stopped. and not till long after
the wal was work resumed. When at
last II was resumed, the engineers and
scientists decided to change the stone
OF whicH ii was being built. It was
feared thai the stone first used would
not permanently stand the strain OF
maintaining the tremendous weight Of
the column. So another material was
found and with this the column was
finished. AS a result there Is a very
apparent difference In color between
the two sections, the old and new.
The huge stone shaft Is hollow, and
inside Is a circular stairway and an
elevator. It has been alleged lately that
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1908-02-06

the scaling off OF i~ncrustattons from the
lower courses OF the stone tells the
story OF incipient crumbling. It has
not gone so far as to be menacing, but
many of h huge blocks have cracked
squarely in two, under the load, and the
most casual inspection of the lines I'm
them, by one understanding the effects
of pressure Of such substances, sug-
gests, engineers have declared, that the
immense weight IL reasonable for these
manifestations.
An interesting suggestion has been
made for preventing the big pile ulti-
mately becoming dangerous and posi-
bly, requiring TO be torn down. 1t comes
from a member OF congress who has
convinced himself, after inquiry and
investigation, that the big column will
some day be In bad shape.
The proposal is TO fill the entire inner
space with solid cement; to run a huge
pipe up to the top, and then squirt In a
stream OF liquid cement till the entire
structure is solidly filled. Let IL harden
as II is put in, a process which would
take a good many months In. doing the
work. IT would make a monument one
solid stone shaft, 55 feet square at the
base, $50 feet high, and weighing SO
much that a whole fleet OF battleships
would he required to transport its bulk.
Sat AZ wouldn't be In any danger OF
falling over.
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1908-02-06
He Was Not lazy.
from the Kangas CIV 81,

N ~ NIVNH tHU 1AdHEd1 VIZ buuIs
Eark Twain says that all are lazy,
e0me are able to fight 1t down, while
rthere fan. He knew q noncombatant
Rf this class when a boy in Hannibal.
His name Was Jim Black, and one
summer morning he was lying under
, trce beside the river listening TO the
birds and watching the steamboats,
glide up and down the great stream.
We'll. what are you here for?' Mark
sa9ed him.
Tn here said Jim. "for to pile them
baies onto the wharf"
"Ohl" and nov you are resting, are
your"
NO" said Jim; Il amt resting, be-
cause ! aIn't tired. I'm just waiting for
khe sun to sink down behind that there
hill sos I can knock off work"
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1908-02-06

A Way some People Have.

A Way some People Have.
A doctor said -:
Before marriage my wife observed
m summer and country homes, coming
IN touch with families of varied means,
culture. tastes and discriminating tend
epcies, that the families using Postum
seemed to average better than those
usiDg coffee.
s.yNhen we were married two years
ago, Postum was among III first order
OF groceries. We also put in some coffee
and tea for guests, but after both had
stood around the pantry about a year
untouched they were thrown away, and
Postum used only.
ZIP to the age of % l had been ac-
eustomed to drink coffee as a routine
habit and suffered constantly from In
digestion and all its relative disorders.
since using Postum all the old com
plants have completely left me and I
sometimes wonder if ! ever had them"
Name given By Postum Co. Battle
Greek. Mich. Read, THE Road to
MELVILLE" IN pkgs There's a Reason"
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1908-02-06
MULES To
FIT THE HARNESS
Reason for Requirement Of Ger
tain Measurements by
British Army.
From the washington Post.

Three hundred mules with empire
waists and chest measurements Of 81
inches are preparing for a tour of In
dia," said Robert L. Mcdonald. OF Kan
a City. recently.
"A British officer has been in Kan
sas picking them up, The party will
sail in December, and this will be a
chance for these rovers. who turn up
when the British want mulctecrs, To
get a ride IN a transport to Calcutta
\ is as far as the mules will b..
taken by the muleteers, but they theYc-
selves are to go up the Himniaya.
m~ountains. India, being a {, arr v
hot place, is Stunned by the aiis o
cratic officers of the continent Of
army there. The poo subaltern sp
his leave of absence on the coast, VIII
1t is cheap. The real swell goes to
Himalayas.
There is where the MisSovri nut =
are going. Their baggage III cor
OF machineNguns and ammun tim. t. u
Will travel In parti' S, one c3rrying a
small cannon, another a pair Of VIII
for IL, another the carriagt, and a.
balance will carry ammunition II r.
not for the looks of things that tn
British now demand a mule with A
61-inch chest measurement, but be-
cause the Britisher never overlooks a
bet. He set out to carry his moun
tain guns on Missouri mules and he
found, after his experience with ten
of thousands OF them during the Boer
war, that the best mule born for
Tommy Atkins job is a short coupled
mule from is to 151l hands high and
IL inches around the girth.
Harness was made by the trainload
Cor this sized animal, and that explains
why the officer now In Kansas is SO
particular as TO the girth measure
ment. The harness for singing the
parts OF a machine gun consists of
leather and steel or brass parts. Our
mule packers, who get SIS a month in
our army, know the advantage of
hiving a mule fit the pack or the pack
hit the mule. When he gets both he
is a happy transportation boss. The
British make that an actual state Of
affairs by making their trappings ali
one size and then finding mules to
ht. The advantage is realized only
when a mule falls in action and an
understudy has to shoulder his load
or, during the march, when it is nee
essary to relieve the gun train by fresh
mules.
THE empire waist means a short
coupled mule, The British army buy
ers' rule is for a head like q picture,
legs like bars of iron and feet like
masons' mells, short in his couplings
and intelligent To this is added in
the mule department q chest meas
Urement OF 81 inches. Muleteers are
paid for the outward bound trip OF
the British transports and are returned
to Kansas City. IL they elect to re-
main at the foreign station they for
felt their right to claim passage home
later on. They ordinarily go direct
from the United States, but are brought
back via England"
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1908-02-06

Fairfield, secretary OF the Plant, Flower
and Fruit guild, lives here with her
sisters, Miss Mildred Fairfield and Mrs.
ID. S. Redner. Other members Of the
household are Miss Margaret d. Kear-
Margaret ". Mitchell, cashier In q New
York department store, and Samuel
Vtertel, principal OF a school at Port
Richmond, s. ]. They have all seer or
heard strange things about the ancient
house. Neighboring residents are not
exempt, however, and backyard gossip
has narrowed to the interchange OF the
days weird experiences.
One unusual feature OF the outbreak
Is h fact that the ghosts prefer day
light for their wanderings and the
witches stop work at dusk. In the cell
lar Of n house may be heard the
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1908-02-06
one May.
From Harper's Weekly.

A story, said TO be characteristic, Is
told OF an Arkansas judge. 1t seems
that when he convened court at one of
the towns on his circuit 1t was found
that nc pens, ink, or paper had been
provided. and, upon inquiry, IL devel-
oped that no county funds were avail
able for this purpose. The Judge ex-
pressed himself somewhat fo~rcefully,
then drew some money from his own
pocket. He was about to hand this to
the clerk. when a visiting lawyer, a
high priced. imported article, brought
on to defend q case Of some import
Rnce. spoke up. in an aside plainly aud
tble over the room.
well" he remarked, with infinite
contempt, i've seen some pretty bad
courts. but this--well, this is the linn
at!b'
The old Judge flushed darkly.
You are hned S25 for contempt, siri
Hand the money to the clerkl" he said,
and when the pompous visitor had
humbly complied, he continued:
Now, Mr.. Clerk, go out and get
what pens, ink and paper the court may
require, and IL there is anything left
you may give the gentleman his
change"
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1908-02-06

Waterbury. Conn, Special: Witch
craft a apparently claimed Terry
Vile, a town near here, as its latter
Say headquarters and field of opera
sions. Ghosts. COLLINS. broomsticks,
mysterious footsteps, sick cows. curd-
fed cream and the ticking of hidden
clocks have wrought upon the residents
on Town Hin until It is no longer safe
Tor a black cat to cross the street or
for aged women 70 gather herbs in
the full of the Don Rabbits feet are
necromancy and spells" are In great
demand.
Supernatural manifestations have
cefitered about the old Allen homestead
on the crest ot Town Hill. Miss A. Il.
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1908-02-06

Captain Biglow. of Yale, was talking
about an applicant for the football
team.
HE will never make a football play
err said Captain Biglow. HE Is as
different from a football player as q
bottle OF brown fluid I beheld last sum
rner was different from beer.
"A man with a motor cycle stopped
or a mountain n where / YVES lunch
ing one sultry afternoon and asked for
a bottle OF beer The landlord took
frorr a sunny ! ~ bottle hung with
cobwebs. He busted II and set It be-
tore the cyclist with q flourish.
"sYou'll And this the best Milwau-
kec. SIR he said.
1.-THE cyclist opened the bottle,
poured q little into a glass and frowned.
Landlord he said, this is very
thick and muddy beer
The landlord lifted the glass and
looked at It. He tilted It from side TO
side. IL was so thick and muddy that
u would scarcely spill.
It's the thunder he muttered. It's
the thunder that has done this
well. thunder or no thunder, I can't
urink IT, said the Tot cyclist, But
I'LL tell what you might do. You might
gust put It I'm q paper bag for me, and
u,ll eat II on my way home.
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1908-02-06

sound produced by chopping wood, but
the iaborer apparently leaves for home
when h 5 o'clock whistle blows. The
owner OF this house is q philosophical
Irishman, who declares that his wood
chopper keeps him company by his
cheerful racket and who SCOTS az well
meant suggestions as to horse shoes,
charms and amulets.
At a nearby farm a peculiarly vicious
influence seems to be at work. Chairs
are pulled suddenly aside or walk
across the room when a member OF the
family attempts to sit upon them
Animals In the barn are affiicted with
madness or die Of unknown diseases.
Spooks beat tatooes on the walls.
Cream refuses to churn. Chickering'S
and ~squeakings are heard I'm closets
and unoccupied rooms.
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Interfused.

can not lie every morning and repeat
the lie at night;
We can not blacken u souls all day and
each day wash them white;
Though the ~pardOning blood avalleth to
cleans the mortal stain,
For the sin that goes on SHINING that blood
was shed in vain.
We must buy and sell in the market; we
must earn our daily bread: @
But just in the doing these usual acts may
the soul be helped and fed.
1t Is not in Keeping the days work and
the days prayer separate so,
But the mixing the prayer with the labor
that the soul is taught TO grow.
For IL sweeping a room by Gods law is a
service He deigns to bless,
And mendlng q kettle worthily Is working
for Him no less
Than steering steady the ship of state, or
welding the sword in war,
Or lifting the soul of man by songs TO the
nights where the angels are
Then none may deem IT wasted time who
stands IN an humble spot
digs and waters a little space which
the hurrying world heeds not
Fol- the Lord of the harvest equally sends
His blessed sun and rain
On the large work and the little work,
and non OK 1t is In vain.
Susan Coolidge.
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1908-02-06
One of His Own.
From the New York World

From the Now York World.
Senator Lodge stepped into the Sen
ate elevator yesterday and met there
a constituent who, in defiance Of the
rule against smoking, was putting In
dustriously on a low-grade cigar.
II judge by the odor," said Lodge,
that that cigar Is one Of Senator
Cranes"
mo. senator" replied the constitu-
ent, who was a literal minded and seri-
GUS person.: II just came from your
committee room and you clerk gave
1t to me out OF your box"
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1908-02-06
LEGAL Tender.

Fron the Portland Uregonian.
The Willamette Heights citizen
handed the conductor of the car a SIS
clearing house certificate.
What's that?' asked the man be-
hind the bell cord.
That's a clearing house certificate.
the new kind Of Portland money" said
the w. I'll. citizen.
lis It good2" asked the lord Of the
punch. VI,
Sure it's good. Paper money goes
these days"
IAN right, old man." and the con-
ductor Immediately handed the passen-
ger 34.95 worth of transfers.
There are In the continental United
States 1900. e47 900 acres OF land.
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1908-02-06

~secretions annoyed me. But Doan's
Kidney Pills have given me almost en-
tire freedom from this trouble and I
ranno speak % highly in their
praise"
Sold by all dealers. so cents a box.
Foster Mllburn Co.. Buffalo, N. Y.
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1908-02-06
Was Il soId7
From Tit-Bits


IN honest Canadian farmer adver-
tised his COW for sale as follows:
Owing to Ill health, / will sell at my
residence In township 10, range 18, ac-
cording to the government survey, one
raspberry plush cow, 8 years old.
She is a good mixer and not afraid
of motor car or anything else.
"She has u~ndaunted courage, and
gives milk frequently. To a man who
does not fear death in any form she
would be a great boom She is very
much attached to her home at present
by e "a OF a log chain, but she will
Ebe sold to any n who will use her
right.
"She is one-fourth shorthorn and
three-fourths hyena.
II will also throw in a do%ublebarrel
shotgun, rs II goes with her.
I'm May she generally goes away for
q week or two, and returns with a tall
red calf with wabbly legs.
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1908-02-06

troubles and the at
tacks laid me up for
days at a time with
pain In the back and
rheumatism. When I
was up and around
sharp twlnges caught
me, and for fifteen
years the frequent
passages Of kidney
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1908-02-06
NaturallY.

Skribbles - On my way here I
cropped my portfolio. containing a few
fairy tales, and / feel pretty sore about
It
J Editor-Yes. / imagine any one
would feel sore after dropping a NUM-
Der OF stories.
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1908-02-06

while that OF the Metropolitan building
clock will be twenty-five.
1t will be a clock suitable in every
way to be a part Of the tallest perma-
nent structure In the world, al the new
tower will be. The tower will be forty
and the clock will occupy part OF the
18th, Goth and 9th floors. The middle
of the dial will be 346 feet above the
street. s|
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1908-02-06
TH0S. GALE, or ALASKA,
MEMBER OF o. CONGRESS-
Well KHoton on the Poetic Slope. N
Washington Address 10 1912 0th 81,
N. W., Washington. D.. o.
CONGRESSMAN THos. GALE.

CONGRESSMAN THos. GALE.
Hon. Thos. Gale, who was elected b
Congress from Alaska, is well known a
the Pacific slope, where he has residat
His Washington address il 1912 9th 81
N. w, Washington, ID. @. :
Washington, d. C.
PeruHa Drug Co., Columbus Ohio
Gentlemen: 4 can cheerfuIIy REQ
Ommend Peruna as a very efficient
remedy for coughs and colds.
Thomas Gaze.
Hon. G. Slemp, Congressman from
Virginia, writes 81. have used your val.
liable remedy, Peruna, with beneficial
results, and can unhesitatingly recon
mend your remedy as an inyigoratinr
tonic and an effective and permaneRi
cure for catarrh."
Man-a-lin the Ideal Laxative.
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1908-02-06

N ew York. Special: When the tower
OF the Metropolitan Life building in
Madison square is completed New York
will have what undoubtedly win be the
largest clock in the world. That dis
rinctIon has belonged for many a
to Big Ben, in Westminster Abbey,
London, the dial OF which is twenty
two and one-haIf feet in diameter.
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1908-02-06
The Gal h fhe Fountain.

Fetch out a Mother Hubbard an hand mo
down some shoes.
I'm goin' TO stan on h. capitol lawn for
the w. G. Il. US.
I'm sick of seem cocktails mixed, an pos
in here halfclad.
As n kind OF inspiration for them what
goes drink mad
{ amt no gay Bacchante. an / amt no
dancin' sprite-
INA a Gal from Dolly county what goes to
sleep at night.
An these amt grapes from M~alaga-jes'
plain old muscadines.
Don't write me down nc Venus with her
exposed limbs and lines.
Fetch out your Mother Hubbard-make Il
calico or silk.
From this time on I'll spurn the corn-an'
stan for buttermilk.
Atlanta Constitution.
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1908-02-06
This W. .est M3thers.

THIS wa fest
Mother Gray's Sweet Powders To- ChlL
dren, used by Mother Gray, a nurse in Chi.
dren's Home, New York, cure Constipation,
Feverishness, TeethinE Disorders, StomacA
Troubles and Destroy Worms: 10000 test.
monials Of cures. All druggists, 2Sc. Sam.
Pile FREE. Address Allen s olmsted. "a
Row, N. Y. "
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AZ tha Cirous-

Mistress wouldn't hold the baby
SO near the tigers cage. Nora
Nora (the nurse)-There's no risk
mum. The tiger Is a man eater" and
the child is a girl
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1908-02-06
A Miuhty Mite.

Jim-"What did Tom mean when b,
said that his matrimonial hopes all
depended upon the widows smile2"
Dick-"He merely meant that she
might marry him or she might not
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1908-02-06

Pierre Loirat, a retired sea captain,
has just died, near Bordeaux, at the
age of 103. He was only IL when no
went TO sea as cabin boy, and Letter,
while serving in a French bark, he was
taken captive by Spanish pirates. Hs
and his fellow prisoners succeeded IN
overpowering their captors, taking
command of the vessel and bringing
1T safely into French port, where the
pirates were handed over to the Law.
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1908-02-06
Time and Money.

TaddelIs-"T hear that Jaysmith has
spending a week with you"
Kilduff-"Yes, It is true. He spent O.
week, and l spent $50"
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1908-02-06
One of Them.

Reggy-Tm going south for the WIN.
ter. Expect to be In Florida next
week.
Peggy-Yes; all others start for the
south about this time. .
Reggy-What others?
Peggy-Wild geese.
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1908-02-06

$50 week and expenses to men with rig to
ly. Grant Co, Dept. "a. Springfield. Ill
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CANADA LANDS.

Write for Our 1908 illustrated
GUIDE TO THE LAST WEST"
Full OF information that informs
Sent free II you mention this paper
Luse Land Co., Ltd, st. Paul, MINI
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Just the Thinu.

IT don't know what to do with my
boy; he hates to read so.'
why not make a book reviewer Of
him?''
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1908-02-06

Michigan is the second state In the
production of grindstones. II pro-
duced s7S.5oo worth In 1906.
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1908-02-06

A FemrfuIIy Long Siege OF Daily
Pain and Misery.
Charles Won Soehnen. Of POI A St,
Colfax. Wash, says: For at least
thirty years suffered with kidney
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1908-02-06

r G 81 Vnus o..cs and ali NsrvSus ptSsHa
Permanently ureA ~ Or. Kline drA
Nerve RsstereE. send fer Free - Tial bottle and GsAHa