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The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1909-12-23
BITTER WEATHER IN
ROCKY MOUNTAINS
Western Slope Is in Grip Of
Severe Winter Cold
Much Suffering.

Denver, Dec. 21.-The west slope OF
the Rocky mountains from Central Wy
oming down into New Mexico, Is in the
grasp of a cold wave Of almost unprec-,
edented bitterness for this time Of year.
Lander, Wyo., reported a temperature
Of 80 below and Cheyenne 10 below. At
Corona, near the top Of the divide, ii
was 20 below last night.
At Colorado Springs Is below, the
coolest in 10 years, was reported.
Pueblo reported 16 below, the coolest
since 1892. At Leadville 18 below was
registered.
Ell Paso, Tex, Dec. N.-There has
been a general snowfall, extending over
West Texas, New Mexico and northern
Mexico. 1t is the most extensive that
has occurred in years in this region
and. following a long drought, is ex-'
ceedingly beneficial. The snow is four
inches deep in this section and is still
falling. The temperature here is down
to Is degrees above zero and water
pipes have frozen.
Kansas City, Mo-, Dec. 21.-Tempera-
lures ranging from 2 degrees below
zero to 10 degrees above prevailed over
the southwest today, accompanied by
a strong north wind. The thermomet-
err at Concordia, Kas, stood at 2 below,
Kansas City 4 above, Wichita 10 above,
Dodge City 6 above and Amarillo, Tex,
8 above zero.
New Richmond, Wis, Dec. 21.-The
government thermometer registered 10
below zero here today.
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1909-12-23
LODGE ELECTS OFFICERS.

0. F. of this place elected the follow
ing officers last evening: C. r.. Mrs.
Mary Fountain; V. G.. r., Mrs. Arsenia
Chicoine; r. S., Miss ella Author: F.
S., Mrs. Margaret Bechard; treasurer,
Mrs. Alexina Bernard; trustees, Mrs.
Hermeline Bernard, Mrs. Eva Lambert
and Mrs. Jessie Beaubien. Installation
Of officers will take place January IL.
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1909-12-23
MITCHELL LODGE WILL
BUILD A TEMPLE

Mitchell, s. D., Dec. 1S~.--Resurgam
lodge, A. F. & A. M. have purchased
two lots on north Main street with
a view to building a Masonic temple
there in the near future. The property
has been owned by the city and on
account Of it's desirability for this pur-
pose the Masons of Mitchell decided
to purchase 1t and erect a home.
The lodge at their Tuesday evening
meeting installed the following officers:
Worshipful master, DR.. r. j. Lamme:
senior warden, r. e. Cone; junior war
den, A. Craig Bowdish; treasurer. HI.
r. Kibbee; secretary, A. B. McKeel;
senior deacon. F. G. Drake; junior dea-
con, e. S. Daniels; chaplain, f. B.
Barnett; tyler, H. B.. Rogers; stewards,
VIM. North and r. d. Wilde; marshal,
G. B. Wilt. The installation Of the Of
flcers was conducted by III. E. Hitch
cock.
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1909-12-23
DISTANCE TARIFF
ON EXPRESS RATES
Wells Fargo Company Most
Affected and May Bring
Contest in Court.

Sioux Falls, s. D., Dec. ia dis
lance mileage tariff for express eompa-
MES doing business in South Dakota
has been adopted by the state board OF
railroad commissioners, which is now
holding a special meeting at the head
quarters Of the board in this city. The
board has ordered that he new sched-
ule shall go into effect January Is next.
reductions in rates at present In effect
In the state. The Wells Fargo company
Is affected most by the new distance
tariff. and II the new schedule Is con-
tested in the courts, 1t will be by that
company.
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1909-12-23
CRAWFORD HAS NEW BILL
ON COMMODITY CLAUSE

washington, Dec. Ex-senator Craw-
ford, of South Dakota, today intro
duced a bill to re-enact the commodi-
ties clause Of the interstate commerce
law in a very drastic form. His draft
is made with the special purpose of
being water tight, n of getting
around the decision Of the supreme
court last spring, which knocked out
the original provision as Inserted in
the Hepburn act.
1t prohibits any railroad from trans
porting in interstate commerce goods
1t has produced, or in which it
is interested, or which are produced
by any company in which the railroad
owns any or all the stock.
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1909-12-23
FIRE INJURIES NEW HOME.

Huron, S. D., Dec. 1S.-Yesterday aft
ernoon fire seriously damaged the in
terror of Asher f. Pays new residence,
one Of the finest In the city, n into
which he lad moved only two weeks
since. Prompt action OF the fire de-
partment saved the destruction of the
entire building. 5veral hundred doll
lars Will be required to repair the dam
age.
DEADwOOD, S. D-William x.
Frazer a been found guilty Of shoot
ing Ike Trotter with intent to injurs
and will be kelteDced this week.
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1909-12-23
HoMEsTAkE HOLDS FIRM
HAND IN MINERS STRIKE

Lead, s. D., Dec. 20.-Although ru-
mors of the Homestake company start
ing up bou the first OF the year., are
rife, there Is no means Of v~erification,
as no one of the officials will volunteer
any information or the subject and no
one outside OF the office force knows
just how many men have signed up the
company agreement to work as nom
union employees. There is no material
change i'll the situation, a few more
men being idle through the action Of
the Transfers union, which called out
the drivers of the Hearst Mercantile
company, the company store.
One incident that may be taken to
indicate the company's future stand in
the matter resulted when a group Of
mine mechanics belonging to the West
ern Federation of Labor went to the
company Offices and agreed to go to
work and quit the union providing they
be not compelled to sign the company's
nonunion list. This was fatty refused
them by the management, who ~reiter-
ated the statement that all future an
ployes Of the company must first sign
the agreement not to affiliate with any
union or become members Of any.
HEAVY SNOW IN HILLS.
Deadwood, s. D., Dec. 20.-The Black
Hills are covered with from n TO five
feet of snow, the heaviest single fall
in two years. The Bald Mountain dis
trict reports from two to three feet in
most places which has seriously ham
pered the ore trains IN that section
while along the Burlington lear the
divide at Dumont the snow has fallen
to a depth Of five feet m trains are
somewhat impeded there. The valleys
did not get such a heavy fall as the
mountains and no cases Of the suffer-
ing Of stock have so far been reported
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The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1909-12-23
CRIME PENALTY LEssENEp.

Deadwood. s. D., Dec. 22.-Joe Vigna,
the young Italian, charged with being
one of the two men who killed Ralph
Walker here last slring, and for which
his companion, Jim Ferro, was found
guilty, was tried before Judge Rice on
a charge of highway robbery and found
guilty. The court sentenced him to 10
years and six months in the peniten-
tiary and b murder charge will be
nolled.
MITCHELL, S. D.-The new high
school building here is nearly complet-
ed and plans are being a for its
dedication soon.
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The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1909-12-23

New Richmond, Wis, Dec. 21.-The
government thermometer registered 10
below zero here today.
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Use of Various Drugs
Is on the Increase
II n insane desire to use opium and
n other drugs of like nature ap-
g = 1aaars 10 ha We taken nnSSeSSinn

Ik y insane desire to use opium and
~ other drugs of a like nature APP
& = pears to have taken possession
of the American people," said reputable
druggist while speaking of the deaths of
persons in Paris by the opium route.
II am no alarmist. but / speak plainly
and truthfully when ! say that l be-
lieve ii will be necessary for Congress
to take some rigid and heroic measure
to prevent the spread of this sure-death
mania. for | think it can rightly be
termed a mania. Our people are drink
ing and smiling every and any thing
which will give relief to tired feeling
and shattered nerves-opium, laudanum.
strychna, salol, tincture ginger. yalerian,
atropia, bromidia chloroform. chloral, CO.
caine, ether paregoric and, in fact, every
drug which can be named. but, of course.
opium leading the list, save in some
of the southern states, where cocaine
rich and poor use it alike. and many
cities and towns have made stringent
laws against the sale. The oldtime habit
of snuff shifting is increasing at an
alarming rate. and any tobacconist. drug
gist or retail grocer will tell you that
a pound of snuff is sold now where there
was an ounce eighteen months ago
Three out of every ten men you meet
ing with them their snuff boxes and
shifting the stuff at least once every
hour.
THAT the situation is serious cannot
be doubted, and in my business a
prescription druggist 1 am in a position
to the rapid advance the evil is max
ing. As 1 stated, opium leads the list
and by examining the reports of foreign
commerce of the United States you will
see that our inportations of the deadly
drug increase with each year. For ten
months In 1901 we received crude opium
from other countries, 5O5, ,i65 pounds.
valued at s1.O97 ,S91, and for ten months
ended with April last we received 391 106
pounds. valued at s743.622. You will see
that there was decrease in the amount
OF crude opium, but in that prepared
for smoking there was large increase
for the same periods: in 1901. 96.90l
pounds. valued at $SO3.O42, and in 1868.
100 2OS pounds, valued 81, ,lSo,2f6. II
is easy enough to account for the falling
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The middle age is said 10 be the coming
style Quite possibly IL may bring in the
three -boned jersey corset
Such Is the thought Of the fashionable
American girls who seek FOR grace in the
old Paris garden. What they deplore is
that reformers SO disdain to compromise
with the styles of the day lsadora Dun
can seems to think a Mother Hubbard
good enough for any lady. and this Is an
error.
Like most reformers. Isadora Duncan
has known hard days in Europe: in Ber-
lin where she and her brother led their
followers about in the conventional drap-
cries of Greek statues. they almost ceased
TO be personae Sratae. In Par,s her first
appearance on the stage was failure:
but her return has been a triumph com
parably only 10 that OF I.ofe Fuller lin the
great old DAYS. The illustrated wceklies
devote pages 10 nersef and her graceful
little girls Sculptors and artists hail hel
personification Of the dancing girl =
ancient Greece Most significant of ali.
French. English and American society
women OF Paris call her in for training
III grace.
Evidently. the time is ripe; but some of
the suggestions Of the League Of Moth
ers of Family are downright amusing:
How to make bust-sustainer out of
an old corset is the title Of a chapter
in the brochure referred to- You simply
cut off the corset's length below eight
centimetreS under the arms
The suspender principle for attaching
skirts and stockings" is another sug-
gesuon that might emanate from a grey
bearded old philosopher Yet Isadora
Duncan thinks the suspenders very good.
and cutting your old corset in hslf Is an
idea of genius.
The great dreSSmakers ana the corset
makers themselves can alone make tho
reform general, says my American girl
informant. The grace movement is fore
ing them to IL Really. think il Is at
the bottom OF the middle age style they
are going to launch.'
The grace movement DO you smile at
IL? DO YOU see anything futile in earnest
girls copying the poses and gestures from
Grec!an urnS?
I'VE pay great prices for Tanagra fig
urines: and why?" my girl said WHY
do We admire the Tanagras IL not for
their grace alone? Their beauty of face
and figure is nil. Their beauty Of atti-
tude and gesture is everything. 1t is
within the reach of all of US. Why not
try for it, STERLING HEILIG
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playhouses has gone beyond the Italian
operas that pleased his generation: but
something of their Ieautifu old gestures
would seem fixed in her ideal.
The girls name may not be given: it
is promised; but their search for grace
and cultured ease-apart from beautv-re
veals a tendency among the rich and
fashionable that must deeply interest all
women.
These fair Americans in Paris seek
something more attractive than beauty:
something. at least. without which mere
beauty fails TO hold. With ii. the average
girl may triumph. And the average girl
may acquire IT.
Grace, 1t is becoming more and more
recognized essential. not only to know
how to walk and sit. but to possess that
mere physical beauty of movement and
attitude which the nineteenth century
neglected In renaissance paintings and
old Greek and Indian reiiefs. we reCog-
nizc that we are extremely ugly in our
movements
Why should not the poses of artists
models became natural to US? 1t is part
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THE HOTEL CLERK ON CHOOSING A PROFESSION

to grow up to be blonde or brunette
astonishing thing that ever happened il
this amazing world
He's a wonderful child SAYS the
proud father as he removes the first seven
or eight yards Of flannel bandages from
around the form of his offspring and
shows you something that looks something
like large sore thumb. Heavens alive
man, you say to MIN, turn him around
quick-you're holding him upside down.
Il am not he says to you: that's his
head he says. Tut, tut you say, You re
joking I am not he says. look at his
head he says. There's a head for you,
he says. Did you ever see anything like
that head in your lifeo' he says
And you truthfully reply that you never
did. And how wide he is between the
eyes, goes on the father, paying no at
tention. He is that you say, and even
wider between the gums. That's a fine
large declivity he has there in his face.
you say. If anything should ever get the
matter with him 'twould be comparatively
by local applications, you say, gazing
spellbound down the infant phenomenon
4 hink he has my nose says the semi
delirious father. critically examining some
thing in the middle of his heirs counte-
nance that looks as If it might have started
out to be push button and then got dis
couraged and stopped just after it passed
out of the shirt-stud class. He didn't get
it all, you say; you might have spared
him little more than that and never
missed It, you say.
Well. after a while the kid gives UP
trying to swallow his own toes as bad
job and his features fill out until they pro-
vide background of suitable size for his
smile, and he begins to talk the language
that every baby talks and nobody ever un-
derstands except his mother. He learns
that his feet are made to fall down with
and that his nose was especially designed
to fall down on. That's child of very
rare intelligence his father says to you
Evening star., 1909-08-28

What does IL matter that IN all Russian
lyceums and high schools Of music and
beauN arts they are ordered 10 deposit
IN the cioakroom the cuiraSseS which
they wear under the name of corset" and
that the Car Nicholas. signing the regu-
lation. added in his own hand that The
development OF feminine charms will be
the gainer?' Or that in the Scauda-
nayian countries the mass OF girls have
voluntarily abandoned the corset through
devotion to outdoor sports?
These are unfashionable lands where,
the costume OF women matters nothing
In Paris the otherwise powerful League
of Mothers of Families got itself laughed al
FOR taking up corse: reform six months
ago. Its tiftytwo-page brochure Illus
trated by photographs of paintings and
statues, anatomical cuts and portraits OF
floating kidneys was reviewed ironically
by the boulevard press Its letters Of
encouragement from 1oa Paris physicians
l'1 poets, painters and sculptors. and 100
actresses and professional beauties fell
fiat.
When asked about the 100 actresses. the
great Paris dressmakers laughed sarah
Bernhardt" She is still hony enough but
Rejane? She fibs-a woman OF that c0rpu-
lence without a corset-f,'
Then. suddenly. they began hedging
Concessions might be made 10 the de-
mands of suppleuess and grace, and the
tendency toward more classical garments
might suggest kind of corset reform,
What had scared the great dressmak-
ers: Paris business was at last being
threatened by fashionable people. Queen
Alexandra of England Influenced by the
movement in Scandinavian countries. has
joined hands with the London Times in
favor of the creation of "A corsetless
national English style" for women. In
Italy. Queen Helene and Dowager Queen
Margherita have formed committee Of
eminent Italian artists, with the fash
ionable Boldini at its head. Its object is
to design gowns and hats of national
Italian style from which the corset
shall be banished as IAN insupportable
Paris eccentricity (which is rather un-
just. Seeing tnat the nrst corsets We're
brought to France ON Italy by Cath
crime de Medici,
1t is to these fashionable movements
solely that the new Partisan grace cor
sets have their or gin.
All this is nearer to corset reform than
any one would have dreamed that fash
ionable Paris could come. 1t gives that
supple softness to the waist which We
associate with chatelaines and noble
damsels of the middle ages.
The middle ages knew not the corset.
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upon it was afterward placed a brass
sun dial. From this stone Meridian Hill
received its name.
Upon the extension of 10Th street and
the removal of the hill the stone was
taken away by property owner, who
used II as carriage step in front of his
premises on 14th and r streets. What
has now become of it nobody seems to
know.
Forty small stone monuments. placed
at intervals Of mile. and including the
corner stone of the District, formerly
marked the bounda ries OF the original,
ten mile square OF these historic stones
;hirtysiX were recently traced 81 Will
liam Schuster OF the geological survey,
vino made il a matter of personal inter-
est TO investigate the present condition
Of these landmarks. The corner stone
which was laid with elaborate ceremonies
April is, 1891, is now buried behind the
seawall at Jones Point lighthouse, to the
south Of Alexandria. Upon the laying Of
this corner stone an address was made
oy Rev. james Muir, of which the fol-
lowing is an extract:
"Amiab BILE ii is for brethren TO dwell
together in unity: IL is more refreshing
than the dews on Herman's HILL May
InlS stone long commemorate the good
ness Of God. in those uncommon events
which have xiven America place among
nations Under this stone may jealousy
and selfishness be forever buried. From
this stone may superstructure arise
whose glory. whose magnificence. whose
stability unequaled hitherto. shall aston
ish the world and invite even the savage
of the wilderness 10 a shelter under its
roof
From the corner stone the boundary
lines were determined, and their position
indicated by the thirty-nne intermediate
monuments four of which. as determined
by Mr. Schuster. are now missing. The
stones are twelve inches square on top
and stand two feet above the ground,
the corner ones being three feet high
with the exception of that at the west
corner. which is Of the same size as the
intermediate stones. The material is
Aouia creek Virginia) sandstone. y
mistake was evidently made iii placing
the monuments. as there Is three foot
corner stone three miles from the south
east angle. The stones are, apparently.
undressed, the rough saw marks appear
ing upon many. Inscriptions containing
the words Jurisdiction OF the United
States" followed by the number of miles
from the corner at which the series be-
gins, appear on the side facing the Dis
trict other sides Of the stones bear
the figures 1871 or 1892. according as
they are located in Maryland or Vir-
cinia. and the magnetic variations of the
compass for the time and locality are
given on each. Where the mile interval
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ground and overgrown with grass and un-
derbrush.
One of the intermediate boundary stones
in good condition is to be seen about
quarter of a mile southwest Of Chevy
Chase Circle A modern marker stands
on the southwest margin of the circle
and the old stone may be readily found
by walking i'm the direction of the line
cut in the top of the marker The monu-
ment stands in an open field and can be
easily seen. Another monument stone
stands in Takoma Park, on Maple street.
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culture and strong nature, writing sue
cessful French poetry under q mans
name. Another of the coterie travelled to
the orient and sat under the sage who
continues the revelation of the Bah. The
ritual is eclectic from the Roman pagent
of the spring to the provenCal courts of
the muses. by way of Keats ode to a
Grecian Urn
No pains are too great to throw them
back into the old graceful spirit. 1t is
no laughing adventure. Through sum
mer afternoons, their songs are accom-
Evening star., 1909-08-28
LUCK AND PLUCK.
BY DIR. MADISON c.. PETERS.

comes to believe that door TO b. open
only to its favored children
The philosophy of luck is a moral palsy
the cure OF which can be found in pluck
The story of successful men shows that
they did not find he opportunities lying
around Loose like rocks on "A roadside.
When the path of life is too easy to walk
a great scarcity of materials to make
opportunities: but the hard road YOU
will find them a almost every turn
In the Michigan state penitentisry at
jackson convict has taken a corr
spondence course in architecture. He
had to work only six hours a day for
the state. the time after that was his
own. and he improved it. Now he Is not
only drawing plans for the prison au-
thorities, but is doing work for parties
outside. Think of that. YOU young men
who spend your evenings in saloons and
poolrooms-free-yst frit ering away your
time, and thus wasting your opportuni-
ties!
The swinging lamp in the cathedral had
been seen before by hundreds but it was
left to Calico to seize the opportunity
of its significance. Thousands of men
saw the apples falling from trees before
Newton's time. but he alone had the
foresight to grasp attraction-the center
of gravity.
relation TO his abl ty: it is opening
for a man of his talents or means. 1t is
not his luck. but rather his pluck, that
crowns him with honors
Young men are heard complaining that
they are worthy OF higher positions and
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with pain and hesitation.
Why not?
So the piano player finds her way. awk-
ward and halting. over the keys: only
little by little does practice make those
hard notes fall like showers of pearls.
So. the graces of these earnest girls, al
first stiff copies, become natural and
free-a poetry of attitude and gesture all
their own.
When they quit their classical draperies
for tailor gowns they take their graces
with them into daily life. Their solemn
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portion of the original District west of
the Potomac river. ceded back to Virginia
in 1916 and now called Alexandria coun-
ty. are only to he located with the great
est difficulty.
The lack Of reverence accorded the cor
ner stone itself. which is now practically
oblterated is Indicative of the trea tment
which has marked a number of the inter
mediate monuments. One of these latter
is incorporated III the structure of a small
bridge, and of two others only the stumps
remain, while others are prone upon the