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The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1912-02-08
he guidance of Miss Josephine

the guidance of Miss Josephine
Jones.
Some have asked what was done
about the tie between Nedved and
Bambas schools in the attendance
contest at the farmers institute.
The sum of second and third
prizes was devided equally bet
ween them.
In cases where there were more
than one member of a school
board present at the school officers
meeting the certificates for all will
be sent to the clerk of the board.
The pupils of Hauck school and
those of Schmoll school are making
marked progress under their res
pective teachers the Misses Mamie
Tierney and Merle Wheeler.
The teachers meeting which
was to have been held at Avon last
Saturday, was postponed until Feb
ruars 10th. The meeting at Ia
Dor will be held on the 18th and
the one at Tyndall on the oath.
The Misses Margaret Murphy
and Lura Curry are showing u
eommendable interest in their
schools and the work of the pupils
gives evidence of good progress
Teachers may secure the use of
the rubber printing sets by max
ing requisition on the office for
them.
Not long ago we visited a school
in which the pupils were spending
a very large share of the time anu
sing themselves. Some-had bott-
les containing portions which they
had mixed themselves : cloves and
water, sugar and water and vanil-
la, etc-with which they frequently
regaled themselves and their neigh
bors. Some were using the beauti
full pictures of the library books
for impression forms to reproduce
the pictures on paper of their
own. Others spent their time in
writing notes, gossiping and cheer
idleness. The teacher seemed to
be unawre of these things and ont
side of offering a poorly directed
rebuke when things became too
bad paid no attention to them.
OF course the lessons were very
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he will proceed to fill the vacan
cies with his friends, who as sucf
cannot help being men of charac
ter, of virtue, of morality. Thi.
is proving too much and is the ar.
gument of a political mountabanl
in corralling votes.
Two years ago when Egan made
his campaign, he posed as a mar.
tyr and had sympathy of the mas
SEES, ourselves included. However.
since having been re-tnstated, he
has ceased to be a martyr and itch
ing, as he did then, to get even
with several public men, who di-
rectly or indirectly aided in his
humiliation, he now poses as a re-
former and %liberator, who will
cleanse the political atmosphere of
this fair state of all the unclean
and ungodly creatures. chiefly fan
cied in his mind, which is an in
suit, tersely speaking, to the state
and places him on the roster of
the muckrakers.
This is our honest opinion of
George Egan and for this reason
we believe Their are men with more
civic pride and tact, if nothing
else, to fill the governors chair.
Aside of this, as stated before, we
are totally indifferent whether he
becomes governor or not, hoping
that Bro. Killion will look on the
matter in the light as we see it
and excuse our rather uncompli-
mentary remarks. They are writ
ten in sincerity and a retrospect
of affair will vouch for their truth
fulness.
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COUNTY SCHOOL
NOTES.

A visit to Nedved school will re
suit in some very valuable sugges-
tons to teachers, patrons and
school officers in the way of school
furnishing, decorating, and mana
cement.
There is a wide, wide difference
between a school teacher and a
school keeper. 1t is very much to
be regretted that there are still a
few of the latter left.
The pupils of Bambas school are
making very good progress under
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1912-02-08

poorly prepared anil the pupils
showed very little respect for the
teacher. At the Gloss, of recess
tho the bell was ring several
times = several of the boys die not
come in until we stepped out some
ten minutes afterward and sent
them in. At the close of the half
day we made some ver.N necessary
suggestions, in priva te, to the
teacher. Report las it that after
we had cones she read these sug'ge s
tons to the pupils and remark ed
that she guessed we were hard to
please,
In contract with this condition
is another school which we visited
not long sinse in which everything
showed that the teacher was a
splendid manager and wide awake
to the best needs of the pupils.
The room was in excellent condi-
tion-floor clean and well swept,
desks clean and well cared for, air
pure and ~invigorating. long clean
muslin curtains, at the windows.
walls decorated with fine tasty pic
lures. The pupils went abort
them work in a really busy ans
business like manner no time was:
being wasted or lost. The lessons
were well pre- pared, the recitations,
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1912-02-08

were interesting, the teacher show
ed a marked degree of special pre-
paration for each recitation. Du-
ring the full halliday fhere was no
occasion for the teacher to remind
a single pupil that he was not be-
having himself. When the bell
rang every pupil took his seat at
once and work began Immediately
and in earnest. We had no
grounds for leaving anything any,
thing but concentrations. What
is the ditference.in the real value
of these two teachers? 1t could
MT be expressed with less than
four digits. One day we slipped
into a rural school at the noon
hour. The teacher was busily en-
gagged at the board. preparing
work for the afternoon. The
greater part of the boys and girls
were gathered. about the organ
O ne of the larger girls was playing
a nd all were singing (the teacher,
t 90, ciimed i'm now and them
{ ongs Of splendid sentiment and
] eligious inspiration. What a fine
influence was here. What a pity
that every school does not have an
organ and someone who can bring
10 them such fine pleasure and inn
Jproyement.
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bernatiOnal boots, if he should be
made a present by the voters of q
pair; neither are we frightened tc
death or have cold chills running
up and down our spinal column at
the thought that Governor in
spe George should become COVER
nor in fact. We are simply indif-
ferent as far as George Egan is
concerned for the obvious reason
that some phases of his career in
Iowa are not clear to us, in the
first place; that his disbarment in
this state as yet does not sound
good to us as well as to many OF
hers and lastly his many wild pro-
misses such as kicking out of office
every CRATER, corruptionist, para
site, p%ie-eater, etcetera, ad libi-
tum, ad infinitum, but wisely
avoiding the statement, whom
these gentlemen may be (Basford
excepted of %course); and attack
ing our educational institutions
without cause. 1t would seem to
an outsider hearing Fgan or read
ing some of his phillipics on the
state and its institution, that we
are literally wallowing in the mud
of graft, parasitism corruption,
and what not; that this state is the
most rotton and corrupt one in the
Union, which, thank God, is not
the case This state is as good as
the best and those base things ex-
list in the hallucination of the SIAN
derer.
An example of these general
ties are heard everyday from E.
gan and this quotation from an ar
ticle in the Ledger where Bro.
Killion. in chanting the eulogy of
his candidate says: his nomina-
ton and election as governor will
completely wipe out the Office seek
ing parasites. from the party and
place it in the hands of the people
where it rightfully belongs.
What is meant by this, we leave
to the utmost stretch of imagina-
ton of the reader. 1t may mean
that Egan rs governor shall kick
out a few office holders, who m
his enemies, and as such cannot
avoid being parasites and a dirty
gang of office seekers and grating
politicians. This having been done
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Entered at the postof1ce In Tabor, =
D.. as second-class matter.

The La Toilette State Republi-
can Club consisting of four men,
bers is sending around circulars
explaining how and why the ''re-
cent progressive gathering at
Sioux Falls was rather a meeting
of the old politicians headed by
one Sutherland and Basford. The
said circular bearing no other
names except those Of w. S. Be-
wen, G. F. Longstaff, A. B. Blake
secretary and Chas HI. Potts, who
are president, vice president, Sec
rotary and stenographer respec-
lively of the club, we will be ex-
cused for our expression above to
the numerical strength of the club.
1t also claims to be the original
La Toilette Club and all other at
tempts by others to cuddle under
La Follete's banner is denounced
as "bossism'' and worst kind Of
machine manipulation.
1t seems that Sen. La Follette,s
friends in this state are making a
puddle of it. We admire much in
this Wisconsin man and believe
firmly that he is in his element
right where he is. 1t is an easy
matter to find faults with others
and may do some good some times,
but telling a president what he
ought to do and doing it yourself,
if you we're president is a big diff
ference.
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We take it for granted that our
friend Bro. Killion of the Lester
vile Ledger misunderstood the es-
sential element of a few jabs we
have made on his candidate Geo.
Egan of late. Now what we wish
to make plain is this: We do not
doubt in the least that Egan is an
able man as a lawyer and fully ca
pable of wading his way in the gu
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tho "Ouartorly." whose hatred was pollt-
icaI. and really aimed at Leigh Hunt ana
his associates There is nothing more
astonishinS I'm the criticisms by young
CONTEMPORARIES Of young contemporaries
I,suallv they are like Bill Skies = dog
who. i'm 4 Christian spirit hatcd o'hci
dogs that were not OF ms own brc,u
The young IOct is apt 10 be LOUD I'm pun
lie praise Of other young poets who are
~ his own Get: poets not of his own set
must expect the uncovcnant"d mcrcles
which K"a,ts friend Reynolds bestowed
ar Wordsworth in parody OF Peter
non" uublisncd before the original TINS
Inbn Hamilton Reynolds was Of Keatss
Get and his Garden Of Florence was
10 have accompanied kcatss Endy.
nion." Here is verse on "Endymioh
and Keats by Reynolds;
II. read and dreamt Of young Endymion,
'sriII his romantic fancy drank It's Ill.
He saw that lovely shepherd sltths zone
Watching his white hoCks upon Latmos
The moon adored him. and when all was
still,
ward stray,
And linecr with her shepherd love. until
The hooves Of the stecds that bear the
car OF day 49,
Struck silver Hgnt III lhc east ana thcl
she waned away.
nut "J,atmos" for Reynodss Ida"
because Latmos Is geographically cor
rect The lines are not bad, and there
are much better things in Reynolds. II
he had lived and sung in the Elizabeth
an ar Iacobean or Caroline days he
would now have applause enough But
he is left out Of histories Of literature.
As IN shelley, II is probable that after
! sanrifoina Keats on the altar OF Leigh
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that | send by Lieutenant Chapman. {. S
A.. who bears this the seal Of the Conf"d-
crate States, at last completed II is much
admired by all who have seen II here. and
hope you will approve 1t as "A fine work
Of art
''Tho seal is carefully put up in a sepa-
rate small box. and Lieutenant Chapman Is
charged under no circumstances To run the
risk Of it's being captured. He takes :hc
route TO Bermuda, Via Halifax, 20 sail on
Saturday, 9Th instant and | ship through
Mcssrs. Fraser, Trenholm x Co, by the
steamer that takes him to Halifax. two
boxes containing the iron press. with full
supply Of wax and other materials for the
use of the seal. Although not expressly
ordered I'm the difficulty Of obtaining these
I'm the Confedcracy at present, AT least or
approved quality, / have thought 1t best 10
have them supplied here all of which |
hope you will approve.
..Tbe incloscd duplicate bill will furnish a
list Of those materials, with the prices. The
original | have paid and retain.
81 have requested Lieutenant Chapman
,o take charge of the boxes at Bermuda
and IN see them to their safe delivery. To
relieve him OF expenses on the route, |
have requested Messrs. Fraser. Trenholm
g. ca here II they can do so. 10 pay the
fr.irht all the way TO Bermuda, and write
N Major Walker at Bermuda to pay the
f,eieht thence TO the Confederacy. should
they not go In a government ship.
still, u 10 possible that some part oil
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E~o&.,>>Mer.o~~

Shelley, decided that the author had re-
solved Ia make It quite unreadable BY
man as a narrative He could not know
La Belle Dame Sans Merci' which
would have made him confirmed keat-
sian / am entirely Of Sheneys nina
about "EndvmiOn." one began on IT, IN
hoyhood, with A heart full Of hope. and
never could find what it was all about.
Mr. Mackail says the solid greatness OF
'Endvmion' is now recognized. Keats
did not recognize II. Mr.. Saintshury
does: 1T is great, though still very I'M
mature and unequal" Mr. Mackail saws
that IL IS not "inCoherent in structure
To me Shelley's novel "ZastroZ2i" seems
to be better constructed: and II En-
dymion" be "a spiritual allegory.' SO
| leaped into the sea'-he jumped in and
| splaehed about. Keats was as explicit
| as puckv; he had learned 10 swim, and
| he declined to tinker at his poem; he
! had great poetry 10 write. I'm two or
/ three remaining years Of life.
! When these great poems came into
I Shcllcy's hands he wrote letter TO
Leigh Hunt which illustrates the atti-
! tude Of young contemporaries 10 cach
! other. H. thought Hunt much superior
| To the author Of the Odcs 10 Autumn
! and the Nightingale. one poem he
| thought especially bad; the editor Of the
| Letters leaves it's name blank, judi
| ciouslv but prOvOkinGly. Byron of
| course. wrote UNANIMOUSLY about Keats
worse than any one IN "Blackwood s or
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the young Zen. Wordsworth. having
"Endyrniou" thrust on him by some IN
discreet pergOn. read the Hymn 10 ran
SAID that ii was "a pretty piece OF pa
ganism." and diverted the talk 10 ms
hairy terrier. That fellow is our nca
trap" q am not quoting the stately
Lectures Of Mr. Mackail0 But Words
worth was VIGOROUSLY Indifferent 10 inc
work Of his contemporaries except Wheh
they were his early friends, ana even
then his criticism Of THE Ancient MA
riner" was a masterpiece Of his uncoh-
sdous humOr.
Coleridge once took a walk with Keats
and told him ghost stories, but does not
appear 20 have given him a word ot en-
eouragemcnt OF young Tennyson ne
said that the lad had not yet learned
The art Of verse making we ma no
sign that Scott had ever opened VOL
ume Of Keats. but when Shelley was ~
rather unusually hot water ne warmly
applauded "Frankenstein" I'm BLACK
woods Magazine" supposing IT TO be by
The author Of 1.-The Revolt Of Islam cine
Young Turks), and desiring TO give nm
hand" Leigh Hunt was concerted
enough 10 suppose that Scott had an
onymOusly attacked him somewhere, ana
was copiously insolcnt long afterward'
Out Leigh Hunt was mistaken. when
we remember SCOTS enthusiasm lor
Joanna Baillie, Miss Austen ana MISS
Eqgeworth, the number OF times OF ms
perusal Of SoutheY's "Madoc," his high
appreciation Of Byron's limitations OF
himself and his way OF recalling and re-
yolcing In forgotten authors, say the
author Of 'Vimonda" or Of Albania, he
hnines like a good deed in naughty
world Of the successful poets. IT Is pos
tiDle that he tried "Endymion" and. ike
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and not singly. Thus an admirable
specimen Of the seventeenth century
architecture and treasures of painting
long hidden from view in the Louvre can
be seen and appreciated.
VI. A. Vincent has for over thirty years
been a keeper Of the Chateau FUntaine-
bleau and is now brigadier, or corporal,
OF the guards on duty there. He has
employed his leisure in ferreting about
among the archives and ransacking old
papers in the chateau, with a view TO
'reconstituting" the life Of Napoleon at
Fontainbleau from the time he first WIS.,
tied il as First Consul and received Pope
Plus VII there. in 1904. until his abdica-
ton. The apartments occupied by Ma
poleon are not open TO the public except
by special permission. They have not
been restored, and many pieces OF fur
niture that were in them in .So4 may
still be seen there. NJ. Vincent has sue
ceedod in making an exceedingly inter-
esting little book on the subject, well
illustrated with photographs, entitled
"Fontainebleau: Les Petits Apparte-
ments de Napoleon Ier.' II is published
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Mystery of the Disappearance of
Great Confederate Seal Is Solved

who sent back on their letter head. bearing
the date of March 6. 1874. certificate by
them which reads
ITO all whom II may concern.
"IIaving received from John I. Pickett.
Esurc CounscllOr-at-law. of Washington
City. in the United States OF America, a
certain impression of the Great Seal OF
the Confederate States OF America. OBJ
tanned by the clcctrotype process. We here
10y certify that the said impression is a
faithful reproduction Of the identical Seal
engraved I'm 1851 10y our predecessor. the
late Joseph $ Wyon. Esqre. for James
NJ. Mason. Esqrc. VINO was at that time
Confederate States of which the seal re-
ferred To was designed as the symbolical
emblem of sovereignty.
I'VE may add that II has been the in
variable practice Of our house TO preserve
proof impressions of all important seal
work executed by us, ana on a comparison
proof impression retained by MS We have
mo- hesitation In asserting that so perfect
an Immersion could not have been pro-
duced except from the original Seal. We
have never made any duplicates Of the seal
WITNESS our hands the date above given.
j. $. 4 4. h. WYON."
Nnw that the original seal has come to
lipht and been Identified beyond the posi-
hilitv Of doubt. the mystery OF nearly fifty
vcars has been solved. II is said the
seal has been sold by Rear Admiral Self
ridge the last person now living who was
Immediately connected with the romantic
history 81 the emblem. to Eppa Hunton
william II White and Thomas p. Ryan OF
v,rcirta who will have the subject OF so
much b,tterness and controversy placed IN
~. r,.,tadarate Museum or the new Battle
Abbey. both in Richmond.
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Hunt he re-read Keats's last volume
II was in his pocket when he was
drowned. and he made more than
amends. publicly. in "Adonais' stu.
we see that young contemporaries are
wolves - each other when not or the
same set As for the middle-aged min
sirels and the young, Mr.. Lowells re-
view ~ Mr.. Swinburne's "Atalan'a In
Calydon' Gs6s) is a mournful spectacle.
The ch0ruScs. II IS admitted. arc flow
ing" and Althaa has some good lines
The rest is floating mist. one does not
hear that TcnnysOn specially cherished
the young Swi1burne or ever gave HIM
a hand. TO be sure. tho elders ar" ter
riblv plagued hy presentation copies OF
the vcrs. books Of the young. which Mr..
Arnold used 10 present to IN" hall porter
at one Of hi. clubs. who may have been
n friend Of the MUSES. Mr.. Palgravc. in
late life. placed many Of tho lat" Mr.
O'Shaughncsscy' poems In an "anih"l-
ogy" Of his collecting. Mr.. oShaugh-
resscy had. on occasion, IN" magic mu-
sic Of Edgar Poe Perhaps he viii be re-
discovered: certainly his contemporaries
gave him bu' IAN iron welcome | once
discovered q poet (ScottishD of ISL
Here are four Of his lines on IN" sea:
And the great ocean. Ike the holy hall
Where slept a Scraph host maritimaL
Was gorgeous with wings Of diamond
And radiant and moon-hrcastcd emerald.
Ia his Hymns 10 orion" he asks.
post thou, IN thy vigil hail
Arctuiu3 IN his chariot pale.
Leading him with a fiery flight
over the hollow Hill Of night?
The poe; Was aged twcnty-one, and
his book lay IN sheets winding sheets,
IN q garr'i. till the cook used them for
the domestic purposes oG fire lighting.
Contemporaries, like ole Brcr Wolf. KEEP
on saying muffin"
Sometimes. 81 course. the young con-
temporary turns and rcnds his seniors.
Exc Byron and Xix" Mr.. Lowell I'm "A
Fable for Poets" where he made mince-
meat cf all the American Wordsworths
and Dantcs. and even chaffcd the seniors.
Bryant. Emerson and Whittier Nor
could n" keep his unhallowed hands off
Wordsworth Hrd his ballad Of Bruce,
who
When he had slain
Gordon, sailed instantly to Spain.
And fought with rage inccssant
Against the Moorish Crescent.
quote from memory. Perhaps II was
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Marshal Lannes. to whom the place had
been given by Napoleon changed the
decoration of his bed chamber SO as To
conform with the style of the First En-
pire. NJ. Nitry. i'm the course of con-
versation with your correspondent, sad;
I'VE shall respect these historic modi-
fications. but the general scheme OF the
new museum will retain the purity OF
the seventeenth century architecture.
The national furniture warehouses VIII
supply appropriate historic furniture Tor
the old manor house, and the room oc-
cupied by Voltare there when ne was
IN with smallpox will be reconstructed
as accurately as possible society has
hoep formed under the name of the
Friends of the Chateau Of Maisons-
Iafitte. which will aid in the work now
undertaken. The interior VIII be en-
ricbed bv "A remarkable collection or
nictures representing the Bolognese
school of Italian painting, which VIII
he brought from the reserves at the
Louvre, exceedingly beautiful nut
known works of the Carrachi. Guercino
Domenechino. Albano. and other artists
will find a home at Msisons- Latitte."
When the work Is completed the pub
lie will be able to visit the chateau IN
the same manner as any national
museum or collection, and will. accord
ing to custom, be conducted in groups