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The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1912-05-30
DEVELOPMENT LEAGUE Is
y PERMANENTLY ORGANIZED

Aberdeen, 8. D., May 2S.-The dis
trict' development meeting, held at
Ipswich, to which representatives of
the counties OF Brown, Mcpherson,
Edmunds, Walworth and Campbell
were in attendance, was largely at
tended and most enthusiastic. A per
manent organization was effected with
the following officers: President, J. w.
Parmleys of Ipswich; secretary and
treasurer, w. w. O'Malley, of Ipswich;
vice presidents, John Wade, for Brown
county; C. w. .Christianson, for Ed
munds county; A. Hoffman, for Nc
Pherson county; f. w. Schrieber, for
worth county. The name, The North
ern Development League of the South
Dakota Development association, was
adopted,
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1912-05-30
HiPPoDRoME THE PREMIER
ATTRACTION AT mitchell

Mitchell, S. D., May 25-At the meet
ing Of the executive committee of the
Corn Palace association arrangements
were concluded for the attractions for
the big fall event. The committee
contracted for the appearance of TIL
European hippodrome during the en-
tire week of September 23-2S, at a cost
OF $4,000. A 40-foot circus ring viii
be made on the stage and the acts
given in the form OF q great hippo
drome. The committee has gOn to tn,
greatest expense yet undertaken in
providing a first class attraction. Thu
menace of muddy streets will be over
come this yea by the paving of Main
street from the Milwaukee to the Omu-
Ia depot, a distance OF eight blocks
Before corn palace, the cluster electric
lights will be installed with which to
illuminate the ~thoroughfare in a more
brilliant than ever before.
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1912-05-30

woman suffrage In England is advo-
Gated not only by the Women's Social
and Political union, with q compare
lively small membership. but also by
the Conservative and Unionist Wom-
EMS Franchise association, the liberal
~suffragists or the Women's Liberal fed
Grafton, which now numbers over 1885,
600; the Peoples Suffrage federation,
which has over 400 societies anu
branches; the s~uffragists of the labor
party. of which the membership is over
1.oo0. 600. Other bodies which nave sup
ported the suffrage are the British
W0men's Temperance association,
numbering 10000 members; the Scot
tish union or the same, with its $4,000
members, and the Women's Co-opera-
tive guild.
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1912-05-30

MEXICO CITY-A band OF $50 In
dams in the state of Oaxaca rose in
arms at Villa Juarez, in the northern
part of the state and killed the munic-
ipal president, the judge and four other
government officials. They are said to
be on the o a to the capital of the
state and much alarm Is felt.
KANKAKEE, TLL.-Patients in the
Kankakee state hospital for the in
ane were excited by a fire which de-
stroyed the laundry building Of the in
stitution. The structure, which burned,
val detached from the main buildings
and nurses had little difficulty IN quiet
ing their charges. The loss was esti-
mated at $40. 900.
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1912-05-30

The albino is still one Of the puzzles
OF science, Beyond the knowledge that
aibinism is due to a lack of the nor
NAL pigment In skin and hair the ply
siologist and pathologlst are about as
much at sea regarding the real cxpla-
nation OF this freak OF nature as they
were 100 or 1000 years ago. AS to the
ultimate why OF the problem-why the
pigment Is missing In the ~albino-there
is nothing but a collection OF uncon-
vincing guesses. Regarding the stats
tics OF albinism nothing satisfactory Is
o~btainable except In two countries. In
Italy the albinos number about one in
every 5000 of the population, whereas
IN Norway the rate Is twice as high,
with one in every 10000.
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1912-05-30
NARROW ESCAPE or
FAST COAST TRAIN
Milwaukee's Fast Columbian
Misses BY Scratch Vandar's
Trap To Wreck Fer.

Aberdeen. s. D., May 25.-An at
tempt was made to wreck the Column
bian w%estbound fast coast train on the
Milwaukee road faur miles west OF
Andoyer at 1920 o'clock this morning:
A heavy piece of angle Iron was placed
on the rail and the tran rain into IL
at full speed. The d~rivewhGels Of the
engine left the track and ran on the
ties for a distance of 3,100 feet before
It could be stopped. The track and
engine were badly damaged. blu the
coaches remained on the rails and no
one was injured.
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1912-05-30

High honoraTiums were paid sur
sgeons in apcient times. When Darius,
the son OF Hystaspes, sprained his foot,
D~annocedes was sailed In, another sur
aEeon of renown having failed to effect
is cure. Damocedes was successful, and
tlie king took him to his harem and
introduced the doctor to the ladies of
the court. The ladies filed a vase OF
gold with money and precious pearls,
which III ennuch was ordered to carry
40 the doctor, The eunuch let fall the
vase. and the careful historian tells US
that slaves gathered up the pearls.
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1912-05-30
SHEA PLEADS GUILTY ,
TO EM1EZZLING $500

Dcadwood. S. D., May 25.-Ray l..
Shea, former money order clerk in the
postof1ce at Lead. today in the United
States court, entered a plea Of guilty
indictment charging him with embez-
cling r~ostoffice money order funds. The
count to which the plea OF guilty is
entered charges Shea with h embez-
zlent ant of $500. The other two counts
charge the embeZZlemeDt OF IS, 700 and
failure to deposit money OF the gov
eminent in his possession in the de-
pos;tory named by the government.
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1912-05-30
INHERITED INDIAN LANDS
AT ADVANCED VAL UATIoNs

Wagner. 8. D., May 24.-Supt. A. W.
Leech conducted a sale, under sealed
bids, at the agency at Greenwood. Of
inherited Indian lands yesterday.
Eleven tracts. with a total Of L027
acres, were sold. The appraised value
of the land was $50. 1923. 10, but there
was such a demand for 1t that the
grand total of theasales was sS8, 1871 6
almost 5000 above the estimated val
ue. This makes an average OF almost
S3S per acre. The largest piece of land
sold was 800 acres, bought by c. F..
Floete and Geo. l.. Chesley. OF Armour.
The price was $14, 567.
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1912-05-30

In one Of the interior counties OF
Maine a case was called that a long
been I'm litigation. The chief Justice
who ut that time was plain Judge Pc
t~ers--thought IT impracticable to keep
the suit longer in court, and advised
the parties to refer the matter. After
due deiiberation they assented, agree
ing to refer the case TO three honest
men. With a grave smile, in perfect
keeping with the judicial dignity, Judge
Peters said that the case involved GER
tain legal points which would require
one OF the referees, at least, to have
some knowledge of law: therefore he
would suggest the propriety OF their
selecting one lawyer n two honest
men. ..... .......
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1912-05-30
FATAL INJURY INFLICTED
ON FORMER IOWA WOMAN

Mitchell. S. D., May 25.-Mrs. Joseph
Bennett was accidentally killed at her
home near Letcher. She attempted 10
get into the wagon to drive TO town
when In some way her dress caught
and she was thrown to the ground up-
der the horses. One of the animals
stepped on the breast of the woman
When the weight was removed. Mrs.
Bennett got up and walked to the
house. and n physician was sent for but
before he could reach her, she had
passed away. death being due 10 an
injury to the heart. The body was
taken TO Mount Ayr. Ia. for burial.
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1912-05-30

or the many freaks played by the
wind, that OF yesterday, which lifted the
nest Of a sitting hen made in an empty
cracker box, and deposited 1t, hen and
l2 eggs, on the top of a rural mai de-
livery box, a quarter Of a mile away.
was the strangest. The hen Is the
property OF Mrs. Ida Erickson, living
three miles east of here, n her owner
saw the wind TAX the nest from the
ground, lift 1t 80 feet in h air ana
finally leave IL on the mail box undis-
tilrbeds The hen has settled down to
her new location and will be left to
hatch.-Greeley correspondence Denver
Republican. 49,
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1912-05-30
LEAD EXCURSION WILL
BE AIL-ElK THROUGHOUT

Lead, S. D., May 27.-At its meeting
last evening, Lead lodge. No. 747, Il. p.
D. E.. made arrangements for its ex-
cursion to Hot Springs. The date has
been set for June g.. The excursion
train will be an exclusive Elk special.
None but members and their families
will be allowed to ride. The entire
crew will be Elks, for an Elk engineer
will drive the locomotive, an Elk fire
man will fire and an Elk conductor will
collect fares. All of the Elks VIII wear
white caps with purple neckties. and
carry purple and white parasols. They
intend to take possession of Hot
Springs n nave a good time.
3
ABERDEEN-The 2Sth annual con-
yention OF the South Dakota Christian
Missionary society will meet in Alb
erdeen July 6 to 9 inclusive.
KENNEBEC-The new municipal
waterworks system here has been COM
pleted, and tests show ii to be one OF
the best in this part of the tate. The
system has been accepted from the
contractor. @. W. a ...,.
MILLER--Close estimates give the
value of cream shipped from this town
each week at $500; butter, $500: eggs.
$3.50; a total OF $i,750 a week OF these
three products.
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1912-05-30

While one OF the gardeners in
Bropmhall gardens was digging n
trench recently. says the London Globe,
he came upon an ancient sand bed. On
further excavations being made for the
purpose OF securing sand for gardening
purposes, a huge bone was discovered.
The bone Is believed to be one of the
yertsbrae OF a whale or other great
Pea monster. If that be so, the waters
OF the Firth OF Forth must have eX-
tended at least a quarter of a mile
farther inland at some very remote pc
Rod The osseous find was deposited
IN Lord ElRin's museum at Broonhal
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1912-05-30

There are two things about San Juan
which are to he found in almost every
part OF spanish America where there
are mountains or highlands. One is
the statue OF Columbus. The other is
the castle OF FL MORO. Most people OF
the United States are more familiar
with Moro castle in Havana. When
they hear there Is another MORO at
Santiago in Cuba, and then another In
Porto Rico they wonder what 1t means.
The explanation is quite simple. These
castles or citsdeis are located on pro-
tectinE necks of high land which domi-
nate the harbor entrances. Eel Moro in
SPANISH simply mean the snout."
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1912-05-30
HIGH SCHOOL PUBLICATION
BOOSTS FOR BLACK HILLS

Lead, s D., May 28.-The Rooster
Nugget, of the Lead high school, is
out. 1t contains over 1000 pictures
and about 500 pages devoted to boost
ing Lead N h Black Hills region.
Twelve thousand copies have been
printed. The high school has received
orders from all parts OF the United
states for it's publication. which CON
tAins articles by mining and milling ex-
perts from this country and Germany.
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1912-05-30

An international exposition Of book
making and the graphic arts connected
with 1t, including photography, will be
held at Leipsic. the center Of the book
ind stry in Germany, from May to DC
t0ker. 1914, the 150th anniversary Of
the Royal Academy OF Graphic Arts
md Hook Industry. It LeiDsic.
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1912-05-30

A new steamship built for the West
India trade, has anchors both fore and
aft, so that the danger of drifting on
the rocks IN certain exposed ~anchoring
places may he lessened. Many wrecks
have occurred through vessels being un-
able TO hold their anchorage during q
storm-notably the destruction of the
United States warships Trenton and
y6ndalia In the hurricane at Apia some
vaare a po- .
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1912-05-30

Al Swedish clergyman in Chicago.
~celebrating the 50th anniversary OF his
~pastorate, draws attention to the rec
ord of happy marriages at which he
has oficiated. Out OF +.Go7 couples
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1912-05-30

Frank "A. Hardy. living in Miami
county, Chic, has just given up the Of
flce OF justice of the peace. at the age
OF "a years. In the course of his life
he has held office for 1OS years, ac-
e0mplishing this record by continuing
in two or more positions at the same
time .h ~.rr @Ws- ~ .t.
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1912-05-30
\ Walter O. Smelling.

Or. Walter O. Smelling. consulting
chemist OF the bureau OF mines ana
of the Panama canal commissions, has
developed a liquid gas of which a little
steel bottle will carry enough to light
a house for a month. He puts 1000
feet or gas Into a steel Container four
feet high and six inches In diameter.
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1912-05-30

/. A young woman applying for a mar
riage license at Geneva. Switzerland
B~ubtracted three years from her age
and was fined sc on e. charge of Co
Quetry.'' a
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1912-05-30

A church in upper Broadway. New
York city, has made a play garden Of
Its church yard, and invites h moth
ers and oS ;ldren OF the neighbOrhood to
make themselves happy IN 1t.
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1912-05-30

The sale Of the third part of tne He
library brought the total amount cal
lied to $l,669, 1B2. Two sections of the
library stin remain to be sold.
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1912-05-30

Professor Arminius .Vannbery, pro-
fesspr OF langpa acH at Pesth university,
at Budapest, try - "rte red his 80th
years w'ty ~ the vigor
which he &. Is long and
active if ".#..t
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-05-19

act! star insists upon being It, and won't stand
for any da1nsel being around whose hair may be like
hers who may well dressed as she is This
for the actress opposite star often being
punk. A woman star would rather have a bum lady
playing partner who was homely than a capable good
locker. What may happen to the play doesn't count
with the star. The men stars aren't so bad-always.
"Il go you the price of another ticket to good bur
lesque show, too that you never knew that Elsie Fer
guson and other OF the younger and not so well
established stars often hold the is, wait in
the wings few seconds extra after the for
their first entrance, that their entrance may
important and will bring applause. Did you
know Just moment, Madam that
leading actress over twentysix years old will play
unless amber coored lights have been put the place of
the usual white footghts? The regular lights would
show up the lines her face show UP her age and she
knows the amber will soften her features and hide
like that Let me put WISE too to the fact that be-
fore the star out the stage the other characters
who open the play usually talk slowly. Then they
quicken their dialogue the moment she appears and the
audience believes it is the star that is 1venng up the
play and making it 60 better Here's another secret
Certainly, Madam, you may have an extra
@As l was saying here's another secret: Do you
know how they fix it so that act will get five times
the number of curtain calls it would otherwise get!
Lend me your pink sea-sheils. Say the curtain has
dropped the first act and the audience applauds.
The curtain is raised and dropped quickly possible
SO quickly that the audience can get only momentary
The quick raising and dropping continued and in turn
each actor is sent out to take his bowexcept the one
actor actress the audience wants to see usually the
leading performer Of course, the audience, having
been set going won't rest in its handclappng until it
does see the actor-and there you are!
"A little while ago told you something about women
stars and the dress question In company where say
there five women, the dress question, to avoid fist
fights is settled according to the tradition of the STAGE
in regular way The star always has first choice to
the colors she wants to wear; the actress of next i'm
portance has second choice-and so on. By the time
the fourth has her choice if the play is four
acter and the clothes to be modern and are
changed in each act there often nothing much left but
dark green purple awful color like that. Then
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-05-19

the poor GIRL whose shade of hair and complexion prob
ably don't go at all with those colors, has to the
anyway, and everybody in the audience says, What
fright she isl and forget to consider what otherwise
might have struck it good acting on her part Ohts
grand game, take it from me! Yes Sir the
curtain is due to go up in minute or two.
"Have you ever tried to tell funny story in ceme-
terry while they were buryng your best friend and were
throwing the first handful of dirt the coffn Have
you tried to dance the merry fandango flip while
both your legs stiff with the rheumatism
stock company actor? Have you sat on the steps
of savings bank that had just busted and taken with
your deposit of fifty bones all the money you had in the
world, and tried to whistle 'Aexanders Ragtime Band
if you meant it? If you haven't, you've had
the sensation that usher gets when he IS forced to
applaud loud after each act of awful failure that
booked for the storehouse at five minutes past eleven
on the coming Saturday night. You know its part Of
job to lead the applause the gay and carefree
house manager puts it. when the audience is sensible and
refuses to applaud OF course, when six of in the
back aisle start cappng to beat the band at the end Of
an so rotten the Health Department ought to be
called in, the audience just turns calmly and cooy
around and looks to who the blamed fools who
applauding can be- We never fool anybody; but the
house manager makes us do it just the
Sometimes, when musical show comes along with
soubrette in it who wants make hot impression and
little dame gets hold of before the opening night and
slides fifteen bones five for myself, and the rest to
be divided among the other young gentlemen as she
always calls us on such occasions) applaud until
gloves crack after she finishes each of her singing
and dancing stunts. Sometimes performer tries to
jolly into the applause thing without loosening up
In which case But you re on aren you!
@You ask me what my ambition is. I've only got
minute left before the curtain goes up; but pay strict
attention and I'll tell you. You know the kind of play
There thousands of them where character
ally says to another, By the way saw Rogers in the
today and he said hed be up here at O'clock
where the character then pulls out his watch looks at it.
and says, with look of great SURPRISE Why, it's ten
o'clock now where the doorbell Immediately begins to
go brrr and where the character exclas Ali here he
is now! -well, my greatest ambition is to work
usher long enough to play where Rogers fails to
show up the dot.
"Sh There's the curtain going up!"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-05-19

to the usher business You see we have to watch play
often sometimes hundred or more times in sue
cession-that catch IN time to a whole lot OF
things the public and the dramatic critics would
guess. We filter to the secrets of some of the stage
things that the actors paywrghts and producers try
I'm sorry, Madam, but we ushers aren't al
lowed to go of the theater errands However, I'll
call a messenger if you wish.
Excuse me, I've got to tend to my business in
awhile however much it gives me the gazooks was
speaking of Gillette. You know he always gets great
notices and lot of talk praise for his natural acting,
his repression i think they call it. Listen! In every
play he appears n he makes all the other actors in the
piece talk at the top of their voices while he Just uses
the ordinary conversation tone. Get the contrast?
cinch, isn't it? I'll answer my own question: Yes, 1T is
a cnch
"Take Belasco and Frances Starr. When he set out
to make her fine actress do you know what he did!
He fixed so that every time she the stage in
play the electrician raised the lights two points That
made the audience believe it Frances and Francess
personality that lifted the each time because the
raising of the lights done carefully and gradually
that the dear little audience could catch onto the
neat trick. And Belasco.wise guy that.,also cen
tered brighter baby spotlight her face than on the
face of other performer in the piece, that the
audience would think her features the more
pressiye and her facial play guess I'm there on the
me- don't you? You see, the audience could see her
features twice clear those of any other of the actors
(although they didn't ever guess why, and believed,
therefore, it must be that her features illuminated
by Nature and had that extra natural those
of the other performers No, Sir, that seat is
IN the balcony NO, can take quarter ana let you
have seat downstairs instead. I'm usher not
boxoffice.
you've probably heard how Richard Mansfield used
to have his furniture built especially that he would
look bigger than he really He was touchy about
his height, and little chairs and low tables, and small
actors (soe of them weren't much than furniture
made him seem much taller than he was. But I'll bet
you ticket to good moving picture show that even
lots of felas like you who go to the heaer regular
job heard that blond star actress would rather
have her play fiat failure than have another blond
play the role opposite her have any other woman
the stage the color dress that she does any
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-05-19

But silly as must have looked, with her still holdin'
the clinch, that wa mt marker to the fiat expression
that spreads Mr.. Roberts face when he swings
around and We'd pulled off the surprise, all
right; but whether he really did think of crawn under
the desk junpin for the fire escape couldn't make
out
"Why Miss Macintosh he gasps.
ooh, Robert!" says she reprovn. After had told
@Ah-er-yes that's 50" says he. And then turnin'
to sharp "Torchy, you may send in Mr.. Fiddle
yes Sir right away Sir says squrmn loose s! and
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ree e"ss Ok. -

AND l thought was shunter, too. Why that
~ very mornn' I'd given the to four five
smooth conversers that had tried to get through
the brass gate each with his private earache to de-
liver to Old Hickory Mr. Robert. I'd sifted em out
from lot of people that had right to get by, and
feelin pulled up and chesty the way I'd done it.
Yet look how Lola rushes me off my feet at he first
whirl. You see, busy just then exchangin few
kiddn remarks with of the lady typists the
office, and had my back to the door; when all of
Talk about your poster effects! Say, here fe
Ford