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Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1911-08-25

we sighted the shores OF the old
world on the Fourth of July, an ideal
day, which was celebrated on board our
great ship by the people of many ma
lions. On the same day we dropped
anchor in the bay OF Plymouth, Eng
land, and also in the bay of Cherburg,
France, reminding US Of the Plymouth
fathers, and of General Lafayette's
help, in making the Fourth of July
possible. AS the Olympic, the latest
and largest ship of all history, dropped
its anchor in the historic Plymouth
harbor, we could but contrast 1t with
the May Flower and other frail yes
sells in which our forefathers Launched
out on such a tempestuous sea of dan
gers, daring and destiny. From the
largest ship in the world and entered
the largest city, with its 7,250,00
peple, which would make 10 cities as
large as st. Louis, and equal the popu-
lation of a large number of our new
western states.
The more we see and know Of the
place, the more wonderfully interesting
1t grows. On Sunday morning we
heard Dinsdale T. Young in the Mecca
of Methodism, Wesley's Did church at
City Roads. In that throng the Wes-
leyan clans from nearly all the parallels
of the colonies of the British empire
were represented. Across the aisle
from us were three deyout and intel
Iigent hearers from Sierra Leone in
Africa, as black as ebony. Then we
were greeted by a white merchant and
his niece from Durham in South Africa.
Then came friends from Australia,
New Zealand, and many from the var
ious states OF the great republic of
North America. 1t was something like
u worlds fair in st. Louis, where we
met so many friends from SO many
parts Of the world. In the afternoon
we walked out into Hyde park where
tens OF thousands of people, in great
groups, extending over hundreds of
acres, were listening to some Of the
wisest and widest discussions Of many
varieties Of subjects. 1t is the most
untrammeled arena in the civilized
world, where people are permitted to
speak on almost any subject as long as
their lungs and the patience OF the
people will endure. The green sod on
which the multitude move or stand Is
noiseless, and one voice can be heard
by a great many. While it enables
cranks. whose name is legion, to SOW
many tares, it also enables many good
and faithful workers to scatter many
good seed beyond the range of the
regular pulpit and church services.
Since we first knew London the in
PRODUCTION of electricity, both under
and above ground, has very much
changed the movement of the people.
The many thousands Of two-story
horse buses. used to move in two op-
posite streams along the streets with
the steady regularity of two marching
armies. Then to climb to a seat by an
old driver on the front end Of a buss
and start his tongue to going, it was
like turning through the pages of
Charles Dickens, DR.. Johnson, or the
records of ancient history. 1t is all
changed now. When We first arrived
at night, the flying hither and thither
of the many thousands of motor cycles,
motor busses and taXicabs, like shut
ties of fire, suggested the confusion Of
the falling stars that the negroes OF
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1911-08-25
L'Envoi.
Out of the Nest.

Snare me the soul of a dragon fly
The jewelled heart of a dew tipped spray,
Or the scarlet cry
A stars quick eye,
OF a lonely wing on a dawn-lit bay,
Then, add the CLEAN of a golden fan,
And l will paint you Miyoko San.
Find me the thought of a rose, at sight
OF her own pale face in a fawning stream
The polished night
OF a crows slow fight,
And the long sweet grace OF a willows
dream,
Then, add the droop OF a golden fan,
And 1 will paint 0 Miyoko San.
Lure me a lay from a sunbeam's throat,
The chant of bees in a perfumed air,
Or a single note
Gone mad TO float
To its own sweet death In the upper air,
Then, add the click of a golden fan,
And / have painted Miyoko San.
Mary Mcneil Fenollosa-
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1911-08-25
Tho Crossed Fingers.

IHS SFOSSSu ringers
He swore that her kiss was the first he
had had:
But his fingers were crossed!
He'd kissed but his mother, when ne was
a lad
Yes, his fingers were crossed!
He vowed that not only he'd ne'er had
a taste
OF quiyerltng lips, but that no other
Had ever BEEN clasped by his arms, then
in haste
His fingers were crossed!
The sparkler he gave her he'd purchased
that day,
But his fingers were crossed!
And never, 50 long as his life should
Would eye, cheek, or lip of another maid
He knew it--past every doubt he was
sure
But his fingers were crossed!
She listened to all Of the Cuff he had
said
While his fingers were. crossed!
She laid on his bosom her wise little head
While his fingers were crossed!
She answered so low that the famed
little bird"
Who peddles sweet secrets, could scarcely
have heard,
AS she breathed, "Oh, my love. I believe
every word!''
But her fingers were crossed!
Strickland Gillian, IN Puck.
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1911-08-25
The blondes win vote for dark haired
FROM THE H~ICKEYVILLE
CLARION.

If IL wasn't for the home made obit-
uary poetry. there wouldn't be much
real. original humor in this country.
Grandpa Purdy went to church in the
rain last Sunday and is now at home
suffering from inflammatory religion.
jed Frink, our gentlemanly and con
genial blacksmith, has just completed
a new set of false teeth for Grandma
Purdy.
Uncle Ezra Harkins is getting to be
quite an author. He has had two
recommendations for Binks' Tonic ac-
cepted and published lately.
Hank Tumms fell down the back
stairs one day last week and broke
three ribs and five commandments sim
ultaneous and at the same time.
Ez Hanks says when he dies he
wants the Hickeyyille Silver Cornet
band to play at his funeral, and then
everybody will be sorry he is dead.
Bige Timms has got a new so Ii. p.
Panhard roadster. His wife has also
got a machine which occupies all Of
her time and attention. 1t is a Singer.
Deacon Purdy has two sons who are
down to New York. One of 'em is
writing poetry for a newspaper and the
other one amt maxim any money
either.
Miss Amy Stubs, our village mill
liner, has got q hat so big around that
she can't take holt Of her ~feller's arm
when she is walkin' with him on the
street.
a representa- a nursery
firm was through mere last week, but
he didn't DO much business, for the
folks around here have got about all
the kids they want.
Mrs, LATE Purdy appeared at the
party last Thursday evening with one
of them decollette gowns on. Her hus-
band can't make much more than a
bare living for her.
Hank Tumms stole the sheet iron
thunder storm out'n the opry house to
patch up his tin roof with, and now
they can't have any show with I'M
pleasant weather In 1t,
Abijah Wicks, the proprietor of the
Huttel H~ickeyyille, is lookin' into
some Of these advertised schemes TO
remove su~perfluous hair to see il they
will work on huttei butter.
Rodney Binks' son Horace writes
home from New York that since he
moved his new three-cornered pianner
into his fiat, he and his wife have to
board and room outside,
A drummer from Chicago was In our
midst the other day sellin' goods, but
we ain't heard whether he was a bass
or a snare drummer. Miss Amy Stubs,
our village milliner, says every drum
mer Is a snare and a delusion and q
snare.
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1911-08-25

a soreness in each side, could not
stand tight clothing. and was Irregular
/ was completely run down. On adj
vice / took Lydia E. Pinkham's Vege-
table Compound and Liver Pills and
am enjoying good health. 1t is now
more than two years and / have not
had an ache or pain since do all my
own work, washing and everything,
and never have the backache any more.
4 think your medicine is grand and ]
praise 1t to all my neighbors. II you
think my testimony will help others
you may publish it."-Mrs. Oils
WooDALL, Morton's Gap, Kentucky
Backache is a symptom Of organic
weakness or arrangement. If yor
have backache don't neglect it. TIC
get permanent relief you must reach
the root of the trouble. Nothing VIZ
know of will do this so surely as Lydis
4. Pinkham's Compound.
Write to Mrs. Pinkham. q,
Lynn Mass, for special advice
Your letter will be absolutely
confidential. and the advice free
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1911-08-25
Or. Franklin Got the Money.

During the war of the revolution it
became very necessary for the Ameri-
can colonies TO secure financial aid
from France. Benjamin Franklin was
selected as the proper man to do it.
Although 70 years old n suffering
from disease, re accepted the appoint
ment and proved to be the right man.
He at once adapted himself to French
ways and manners, and soon became
very popular. The young mobiles aban-
doned their swords for Franklin
canes" and Franklin dolls" were dis
played for sale in the shops. Franklin
took up his residence at Passay, a sub
urb OF Paris, and lived in handsome
style. John Adams, who came over
later to help him, was amazed at what
he termed his extravaganza. He found
him, he says, surrounded by seven
servants n a choTa-wOman, and
spending $4,000 q year while a solicitor
for the needy Americans. But Franklin
evidently knew his business. At n
rate he accomplished what he was sent
to do.
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1911-08-25

TheyH have TO be there with the STUFF
n Robert Browning wrote.
ThereU be no chance to hang a bluff
When mother goes to vote.
or lace the ballots will be trimmed,
Il real lace, too-no less.
In varied hues and with a shade
To match each hat and dress.
And when she drops the ballot in
The little round tin cage,
Twill be q gross m heinous sin
To ask her name-and age.
Therell be no opportunity
For rivals fair to gloat.
No useless questions will there be
When mother goes to vote.
The blondes win vote for dark haired
men,
The brunettes for the fair.
The baldheads will be passe then
And homely mayors rare,
In Chaucer, Homer, Byron, Poe,
The candidate must shine.
In music he must surely know
Mozart from Rubenstein..
The isms, ologies and such
He must aim to promote
Or else he'll not amount TO much
When mother goes to vote.
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1911-08-25
70 KEEP THE SKIN CLEAF

For more than a generation, CUT
cura Soap and Cuticura Ointment have
done more for pimples, blackheadt
and other unsightIy conditions of the
complexion, red, rough, chappec
bands, dandruff, itching, scaly scalps
and dry, thin and falling hair than any
other method. They do even more fol
s~kin-tortured and dishgured infants
and children. Although Cuticura Scat
and Ointment are sold by druggist!
and dealers throughout the world, 4
liberal sample of each, with 32-pagt
book on the care of the skin and halt
Will be sent post-free, on application
to "Cuticura," Dept. % l., Boston.
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1911-08-25
A EauIt nrouaht Homo.
From the Washington Posi-,

Ot& $500 " NVtt - ~
DR.. James II. Docking. the president
of Rust university, once discussed, in a
Fourth OF July address at Holly
Springs. Mass. the treason OF Benedict
Arnold.
'Arnold's fault he said, was as
plainly brought home to him as the
fault OF Fenimore Cooper's frieni.
'Tenimore Cooper gave a friend a
copy OF his last work. i~nscrfbing on the
fiyleaf the words:
"'To John Blank, with the authors
affection and esteem
"A few months later Cooper came
upon this same book at q second hand
dealers. He bought It and son it back
scription.
This volume. purchased Mt q sec-
ond-hand shop. Ii represented to john
Blank with renewed affection and re.
iterated expressions esteem
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1911-08-25

Now seems to be a good time to put a
new roof on the meetin' house.
IL is said that women always kiss
and make up, but the fact remains
that most Of 'em are made up first.
The polecat has got the most indi-
viduality OF any animal / know OF,
and the snake Is longest wasted.
Outside OF a government job, the
softest snap / know OF is to be a line
man for a wireless telegraph company.
There are only two kinds of wimmin
who like to be told they are purity
the married one and the single ones.
Lem Higgins is getting to be q reg
ular f~ull-fiedged socialist. He hasn't
missed a single church social in three
years.
The best anti-fat cure we know of is
to try and make a living running a
seVen-column paper in a one-Column
town.
Jed Prink ought to be one of the
cleanest ~fellers in our midst. His wife
keeps him in hot water most of the
time.
II every Teller was judged by the
love letters he has written, the insane
asylums would have TO hang out the
S. r. O. sign.
This is an u~ngratefuI world. A man
Is no one dead than all the relatives
run to the newspaper and put in a
card Of thanks.
Lem Higgins, chief of our fire de-
partment, expects TO go to Chicago
soon to pick out some new summer
styles IN hose.
Ez Purdy has travelled about as fur.
as any Teller in this vicinity. He has
druv a sulky pillow for Anse Higgins
for nine years.
The lid is on in our town. William
Tibbits, out popular general store pro-
prietor, has put IA new patent burglar
proof screen ver his cracker bar'L.
There never was in this world a
baseball team that looked half as good
the first of July as it did the frst of
May, and there never will be one.
Elihu Bibbins fell out'n the hay loft
'tother day and knocked his brains out,
but he doesn't mind it much, for he
has since got a good job as chauffeur,
Old man Haskins says he's going 10
hire the Hoppertown silver cornet band
to play at his funeral, and her he will
be sure everybody Is sorry that he Is
dead.
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1911-08-25
Sure Cure for snori,,.
From the London ChrollicIe.

TrUIu tHe Lundon Chronicle.
To the snorers who ask for the cpra Ia.
the cause be announced. Snoring is n.
result of stomachic repletion and mantaI
yacuity. A correspondent who has s,,r-
fered from both prescribes the cIre a
light superior none-to avoid repletion
n the frequent repetition OF some liter.
airy phrase to provide occupation for tbe
mina during sleeping hours. Go to bed
Iasung ana think OF some short. literary
oination of the two prescriptions arajnst
s~noring-the a%bstention from food and the
incubation upon a literary p-hrase-mav
De oun In Ecciesiasticus-the 18th versa
OF the Slst chapter: How sufficient II a
We'll hammered man is a very little. and
nc doth not breathe hard upon his bed .
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1911-08-25
Nothing Is in Vain.

Nothing Is in vain
Not a flower blooms TO die
Meath tie shade or open sky
But is found by some o eye;
1t will bloom again;
For the thoughts of God shall be
Lasting as eternity.
Not a sweet-voiced bird
Lives ana sings and flies away
But soihe heart is ~gladdened; nay,
Not the music of "a day
Passes all unheard:
Still there is an ear that hears
AL the music OF h years.
Not n kindly deed
That a loving hand has wrought,
Not a soul-born word, TO naught
BY the cankering years is brought;
Not a truthful creed
In forgetfulncss long lies,
1t must grow where falsehood dies.
ri. u. Cason.
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1911-08-25
a Personal Matter.

You must have studied political
economy pretty thoroughly to be SC
impressed with the iniquity of the
trusts"
ITO tell you the truth" replied the
candid citizen, Il don't know much
about the inside workings of trusts
But I have seen pictures of the men
who M them, and / have kind Of
taken a dislike to them"
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1911-08-25
CHICAGO Girl Wins Fame.

In the American Magazine Edna Fer
Der writes another story. Miss Ferber
is being heralded by literary critics
generally rs the SUCCESSOR TO the late
O. Henry. She is a Chicago girl. 20
years old. who began to write a short
time ago while a reporter on a Mllwau-
kee
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1911-08-25

The men around
the polls will be
Obliged to wear
dress suits
And manicure their
hands and see
To shining UP
their boots.
They'll have to cut
the smoking out
And conversation
raw,
Combining 1t to talk
o
The works OF Keats
and Shaw
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1911-08-25
KEET, COOL.

Don't let the torrid atmosphere of sum-
mer worry you, but just
Keep cool.
Don't let yourself be ruffled up. ex-
cited or unduly fused.
Keep cool.
Don't scold about the price of ice or
meat, or anything like that.
Don't worry over little things or insti-
tute n family spat
Or lose your temper uselessly and vent
you feelings on the cat.
Keep cool.
When everything on earth goes wrong
and things are not what they
should be.
Keep cool.
Remember how Cap. Peary fought the
icebergs in the polar sea.
Keep cool.
When asphalt pavement seethes and
hollis and stone sidewalks reflect
the heat;
When il is possible to broil beefsteak
right on the b~rick-paved street;
Don't rave and swear and tear your
hair and spoil a disposition sweet.
Keep cool.
when collars wilt and p~erspiration
trickles down your manly back,
Keep cool.
When You reel very sure, ere long,
your dome OF thought is going to
crack.
Keep cool.
Though others rave about the neat and
are beyond all measure fused.
And though the weather bureau is
quite properly maligned and
cussed,
we don't know how you'll do 1T. but.
remember. or all things, you must
Keep cool
ACCORDING TO UNCLE ABNER.
The way Of the pants prcsser il hard.
The harsm skirt COVERS a multitude
or shins.
ola FIJI Perkins Is d man a very
rec,lar habits. He gets drunk every
n4eht.
Many a man earns his bread by tbs
exevot of his frau. Lem Purdy's wife
~ IN washin'
~ gravy. Il seems to be morn OF 4
d,errace IA have q 1910 model oatmo.
nile than 10 have none at all.
rev. Mr. Binks has The shingles
#@MW# &W+|t UN|HM# H".#tH.WUf
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1911-08-25

proprietor OF Millinery Shop-Why
New Assistant-Bccause we baar,t
got what she wanted.
Propr1etor-YouIl kindly remember
In future, miss. that you're here to
sell what ! Keep and not what PEOPLE
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1911-08-25

a was very
bad and / had a
continual backache
which was simply
awful. i could not
stand on my feet
long enough to cook
o meals ~Victuals
without my back
nearly killing me,
/ would have
dragging sen.
sations / could
hardly bear it. j
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1911-08-25
EAsYN
UF.THE'MowENT
SS2g BY ROY x. MOULTON.

Copyright, 1911, by c. N. Mather.
WHEN MOTHER GOES TO VOTE.
Respectfully dedicated to the Suffra-
gettes and Womcn's Ciubs.)
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1911-08-25
Joseph the Unfortunate.

Joseph H., emperor of Germany, was
not a very successful ruler. Half in
Jest. half in earnest, he suggested this
as an appropriate inscription for his
tombstone: Here lies Joseph, I'M
fortunate in all his undertakings" He
was a good man, with excellent in
tentions; but somehow his plans al
most invariably went wrong, BE good
ami you viii he happy ala not seem
to apply In his casa. The truth is,
he was lacking i judgment. He was
a jealous rcformer and deeply con-
cerned for the welfare Of his subjects;
but he went about it in the wrong way.
He tried to reform people with q ham
mer, and totally d~isregarded their feel
ings in the matter. Many Of them did
not even know they needed reforming.
Joseph a about as much tact as a
runaway horse in a flower garden. He
probably did not know ii, hut this lack
Of judgment was largely the cause Of
his being unfortunate in all his under
takings.'
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1911-08-25

From Harper's Bazaar.
Gabrtel-Wasn't that spirit satisfied
with her mansion?
st. Pcter-No; she said she certainly
expected enough closets.
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1911-08-25
Father Mathews Temperance Work

One hundred and fifty thousand con-
verts to sobriety within q few months
in one city is a good record. That is
h result credited to the work Of
Father Mathew in the city of Cork
about the year 1888. From Cork the
movement spread all over Ireland, and
even some parts of England felt it's
influence. Perhaps never before or
since has a temperance movement as
sumed such proportions or been fol-
lowed by such great results. The work
lone by Father Mathew, involved great
personal sacrifice, for his family owned
a large distiliery from which he had
been accustomed TO receive large divi-
dends each year. The crusade of which
he was the head caused such a falling
off in tho drinking OF the working
classes that the distillery had TO close.
Father Mathew spent some time I'm the
United States in 1850. and founded nu~
merous total abstinence societies.
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1911-08-25
THAT
AWFUL
Cured by Lydia E. Pinknam's
Vegetable Compound

Morton's Gap, Kentucky.-sT SUI.
Tered two years with female disorders.
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1911-08-25
Innnnrtanf 20 Rnnthera
MercILess.

docs this hobble skirt do me jus.
hce, Father?"
Certainly, my dear. Justice with.
out mercy.'-Life.
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1911-08-25
The partnoor Massacre.

At the close Of the war of 1912 Eng
land held 5000 Americans as prisoners.
confined at Dartmoor, in Devonshire.
OF these $500 were soldiers captured In
battle, and $500 were eamen The lat
ter had been impressed by British
cruisers and refused to serve on Eng
lisn ships, on the ground that they were
American sailors. Some Of them had
been imprisoned for 10 years or more.
Peace was declared in December, 1914,
but the prisoners did not hear OF 1t till
March, When the news finally reached
them Of course they were greatly elated
and expected to be set at liberty very
shortly. AS day after day passed with
no sign of release, they became FESTIVE.
They demanded better food and better
treatment, and when these were re-
fused they showed signs Of insubordi-
nation. one day the guards fired on
the prisoners, killing five and wound
ing SO. What was still more eXasper-
ating, the British government pro-
nounCed the act justitiable. When news
of the Dartmoor massacre" reached
this country there was great indigna-
ton, and no wonder. John Bull proba-
bly, would think twice and count 100
before doing such a thing now.
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1911-08-25
Summers SONG.

You call 1t the patter
OF ~raindrops that scatter,
Like diamonds the grasses among.
Or else, IL 1t pleases
You whisper of breezes,
And cadence of songs they have sung.
OF clear lifting fountains,
And murmuring mountains,
The voice OF old ocean, sublime,
But jocund or lonely,
I'll wage you they're only
The songs Of the glad Summer Tirne
Oh, the rollicking notes Of a
rhyme,
The mathis and vespers of gay Summer
Time.