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The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1912-02-29
Baseball Captains of Industry
DAN ouEARY, THE OBJECT LESSON IN CONFIDENCE.
COPYRIGHT BY w. w. AULIcK)

Let u now pause by the way, while W e render unto Daniel n hing
that r OLearys OLeary nourshed in the days when you were on q
milk dict-and he had a flourish coming to him. He a a baseball play
err and a good ne a baseball manager and a better one. He ought really
go in a chapter with John W. Gates, Richard Garfield. Phil Daily and John
Morrissey, but it's baseball we're out to clear up. % Dan properly belongs
the 100 notable fgurss series
If Dan thought he had a chance he would bet his equivalent OF l.
100000. If he thought he hadn't a chance-but he never thought la way
for that wasn't the OLeary nature. why one time, after II had gone
along for something like a score of games with the old Indianapolis team,
and got himself n more base hit than a rabbit I'll get you, gents" says
Daniel I'll bet you / crack out a home" This IA considered a rare Jest
in those days, and the good master OLeary didn't lack or takas o
when along comes a likely looking ball friend Dan meets 1t o n tn nose
prance around all the bases, until he had covered nc fewer than u
Now, Mister Photographer" says this amusing oLeary. You my tax
my picture"
But for that there was a laugh all around, and after this had subsidized
home to third, from third to second and thence to first nc hon again,
running indeed, as W e SAL In racing circles, the wrong way or the track.
Did this cure u genial Dan of his betting prochviies? The answe
is no. IN course of time he drifed % Scranton. Pa, and there gathered %
10 color o a Saturday night Dan trained them o n lager seasoned
with cayenne pepper. and promised them If they made a win. they should
swim in the amber fluid, which is the poetic name fr beer. This they Id,
and after they had once beaten the Wfkesbarre team, they walowed in
prosperity, for Wikesbarre had long been bad medicine fol Scranton.
Dan and his braves annexed a comfortable bundle of the circulating
medium, and after a while somebody says: well, there's the Williams
port team" looking hard at Dan the while. Now the Wnhamsport team
considerable team. It had made the crack Athletics OF Philadelphia
fare-ye-weN. When the odds heightened to 10 to Z with Dams boys at III 7
end, this OLeary steps out unbuckles hism money bag and sets in a stack Of
$4,000, which was a swell bet any way you look 1t It, suppose tn $31oo
did represent the payroll which Dan "a due 20 ease In to his players next
day? What OF it" Dan calls a meeting and say lie:
Boys, I bet the works on o to win. II you don't like It, get another
manager. If you do like It, 70 in and wn, or weU all be derstudyin
Panhandle Pete for the next century"
Dams boys didn't lynch him. Instead they told him he was the sort Of
wild CATS and you know how a wild ca plays. Score: Scranton. 20; Will
Transport {. That's ALL
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1912-02-29
LILLIAN RUSSELL is
AFTER A BIG INCOME
THE PRINCESS LOUISE.

remarks about no being a piker on the
matrimonial seas and commented upon
the fact that other women with less
than half Of her good looks n fasci-
mating ways had managed to capture
steel kings n the like whose income
would make $4,000 a year look like a
Cuban hut in an arctic winter.
With the announcement that Lillian
wants a $685. 600 income also comes the
story that to her the announcement Of
her engagement to Moore was a little
premature. While they had been seen
in each others company for more than
a year, when the announcement actually
came 1t was from Moore.
1t seems that Moore was calling upon
former President Roosevelt In his o.
flee, and as the publisher left the office
he was asked If it was true that he was
engaged to Miss Russell.
"Why, sure" he answered.
Then he went to Miss Russell's house
for dinner. While he was there the
telephone rang and Lillian answered it.
On the other end was a newspaper man
who wished her to confirm her engage
ment. She first said she had nothing
to say, pom which Moore spoke up,
saying:
Lillian, I told them we are engaged;
you may as we'll confirm It."
So she confirmed the engagement.
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1912-02-29
TED SULLIVAN LEAGUE MAKER.

Ted Sullivan cuth his infanthe teeth o. a regulation baseball and when
he a old enough to play with toy soldiers he whipped out his jacknife
and altered the make believe bayonets 81 that they looked like bats. He
was forever forming his friends and acquaintance into sides, and any con
sideration other than baseball was eminenty unimportant to him. Once.
when his father said TO a neighbor, Hes a democrat" young T. s.. cor
his parent. HE amt neither, pop" said Master Sullivan, he's a.
outfeider" Ted divided al humanity into pitchers, catchers. infelders or
outfeIders.
BY the time Ted a able to find his way around without a nurseh he had
organized a minor league, taking in the cities oc Dubuque, Davenport Rock
ford and Omaha Well, O course, a league OF thiss sort doesn't sound VERY
important to you, but what thinkee of players uch a s Charles omiskey,
Tom Lotus, Charles Redbourne, Jack and Dave Rove and some Of the
"a" class? Wei mates, they were Ted Sulivans roster. Think better
of that first foolish little league now, don't you?
Pretty o they began to talk about Ted Sullivan, and his ability tic
pick players. So they had him w to St Louis to try his team ut against
the Browns and the upshot Of it wa that Sullivan and Comiskey had to get
together and make a world heater ut of that Missouri material. Ted a
the organizing boy and he seldom, If ever, went wrong O a pick. He a
the wise bird that fitted from point to point gathering twigs or the max
ing If the mes that should withstand all the sings and arrows that hap
pened. When Sullivan got through bringing player twigs to St Louish %
had a nest a strong a s the Brooklyn bridge.
But the building of the Browns a only a incident to Sullivan. He
o. Henry V. Lucas to join n with him n they formed the Union AS
ISOLATION Of Baseball Players, and after Ted tired Of that plaything he
amused himself by organizing the Western league, which was important
enough to be represented by the cities of the class OF Kansas City, Omaha,
Milwaukee, Toledo, indianapolis and Cleveland. The Atlantic league owes
its being ITO Sullivan, and 81 does the Texas league, which he yet going in
the breezy fashion of the section. And who. think you, fathered the Vtr-
cinia league? Ted Sullivan. None other. One day when time hung
heavily on his hands, he looked at the clock and said. by George he hadn't
organized a league in five minutes Sc. o make up for the lapse, he went
ut and gathered together some foks of his W good sort, and they set
the American league in motion, when Ted had lone that he had
done something, which nobody a deny.
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1912-02-29
Work Of the German Labor Markets
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Work Of the German Labor Markets
Elmer Roberts. in Scribner.
These labor markets are a curious
development Of the time. In them g.
708, 900 men and women put up their
services for sale in 1903. Employers
offered 2,2Os, 900 places, and 1,524, 900 Of
them were bought and sold. Five years
have seen transactions in these mar
kets doubled. In some cities almost all
the unskilled labor is marketed in the
local exchange. High percentages OF
skilled workmen and the employers Of
skilled artisans n in the exchange
the largest opportunity and h largest
selection. Hence the business of the
exchanges has expanded sometimes 100
per cent a year. Thus the Berlin su-
burban exchange, at Charlottenburg,
filled Is, 600 positions in 1909, as COM
pared with 1886 the preceding year.
In Wiesbaden, the figures for the same
years were IL, 62S n 1870. The NUM-
cipal bureau in the little city Of Rends-
burg arranged employment for 1854
persons compared with GIG. The num-
bers in the III making town of Essen,
were 1856 n 5,S29. Municipal labor
bourses in cities such as Dusseldorf,
Wiesbaden, Magdeburg. Posen have
concentrated in their offices almost all
the transfers in certain classes Of en-
ployment.
A variety of employment offices ex-
listed before state Of municipal gov
ernments were convinced of the pro-
priety of using public funds for facili-
tating private contracts between mas
ter and man. Trades unions, guilds,
associations of employers, societies pro-
viding relief fer the INDECENT unem-
ployed, had long tried to bring effec-
tive direction to the man-out-of-work
and to the employer wanting hands.
The ordinary way Of recruiting labor
from the men hanging around the fac
tory gates, or of a man finding work
by tramping from n set Of works to
another, was perceived to be inefficient.
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1912-02-29
INCREASE IN NUMBER
OF AMERICANS
GOING TO CANADA

Although Western Canada suffered,
~ did many other portions Of the
west, from untoward conditions, which
turned n 0f the most promising
crops ever seen In that country, into
bat little ore than an average yield
~ all grains, there Is left in the
farmers hands, a big margin Of profit.
OK course there were many farmers
who were fortunate enough to harvest
and market q big yield, and with the
prices that were secured made hand.
some returns. From wheat, oats, bar.
ley and fax marketed to the 1st Of
JANUARY, 1872, there was a gross rev.
enne Of SIS, 5 900. The cattle. hogs.
poultry and dairy proceeds brought
this mp to $101, SIC, 900 or 81 million
dollars In ces of 1910. There was
stn I'm the farmers hands at that
time about IS million bushels of wheat
worth at least another sixty-five mil.
Hon dollars following for inferior
grades), besides about 100 million
bushels Of oats to say nothing of bar.
bey and fiax. which would run into sew.
eral million Of dollars.
There Is q g. at thrush Of settlers
10 occupy the vacant lands through.
out Manitoba, Saskatchewan and AL.
berta. The reports from the Govern
ment show that during the past year
upwards Of 131, 900 Americans crossed
the border into Canada. A great many
q these took up farms, over ten thou
sand having homesteaded, in fact the
records show that every state In the
Union contributed. A larger number,
not caring to 60 30 far away as the
hcanesteadfn& area. have purchased
lands ut from fifteen dollars an acre
20 twenty-five dollars an acre. The
prospects Tor q good crop for 1912
8 % satisfactory as for many years.
The land has had sufficient moisture.
and with . reasonably early spring, 1t
- safe to predict q record crop.
Those who have not had the latest
literature sent out by the Government
agents should send to the one nearest
and securc 4 copy.
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1912-02-29
AL REAcH-oR FROM P DOR BOY TO PRESIDENT.

A lot of boys who couldn't begin % tell you the name Of the vice presi-
dent IF the United States. or what the capital If West Virginia is would
exclaim a. IN mention of he m of AL Reach, IT know um; I've always
known uni" That's the way Of it. Baseball has always known AL Reach.
Today his name stands a the head Of a mammoth sporting goods estab-
Nshment, and the Reach wealth. II spread out in dollars, would stretch
from the Eastern league to the land of the native sons-and California Is
what I'm uylngt to suggest by that
Alfred j. Reach history would go well set % yellow covers. And II ever
there shone a n example Of the poor boy who became a millionaire by his
wv efforts, that example a Al Reach. When 1t m to cleaning the
windows and sweeping the floor and rubbing up the handle Of the big front
door. AL Reach had something OF Admiral Porter, X. c. B. He was a clean
living youngster and he became a clean living man.. He was strong. a $ a
result and when n the late eos he played o n the Brooklyn Eckfords his
hardness a lie talk of he team. Pretty oon they had % have him in
Philadelphia, and there he wa a big factor in winning a few champion
ships for the locals. Reach was playing second base for the Athletics,
fielding .905 and batting 1871, ndify you have n mind many players of today
who are topping this showing, please write.
The first season Reach played with the Athletics they pulled down the
remnant, and this made u gentleman feel so good he adopted the city
and hs kept possession of 1t yer since. At the time of his advent, he
didn't have much in the way of capital outside of a pair Of hands that
didn't know how to let co.. they grasped d baseball or other oppor-
But Reach put brains into his enterprises, and pretty soo he had
S well, and first thing he knew his nan a OF a lot of sporting
goods that the public had to buy and from that time 1t a a golden
pathway, and AL Reach didn't have to play second base or second fiddle
or second anything else. He just got in from and staid there.
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1912-02-29
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The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1912-02-29
ARTHUR IRWIN. The MAN WITH The PADDED Gil Owe.

To understand just how Arthur Irwin the eminent shortstop for Prov
idence in the way back-yonder days. brought the padded glove nto being
you JUS understand that a ball boy Of some years q vas a ball boy INC
not an opera singer. Unlike a vocal smr 81 the present time. he "a capable
of going into action every day-and willing besides. Nowadays o have
to make allowance Tor genius and talent, and arrange your team accord
of these advices knows several outfelders-get that, gentlemen. outfeld.
ers-who positively will not play double headers.
But aforetime the ball boy had to work or his hire. and he couldn't
out on a sub, because in tn main, there wasn't n sub. So, when Arthur
Irwin. the before spoken Of eminent shortstopper' tried to grab off a
erounder and the grounder tied his fingers into the form If a pretzel Arthur
set about easing the pain. and "favorins" the hand. the while he continued
the ga.ne. He got a friendly govemaker t o fit him out with a glove
plentfuny padded around the place where the damage dgts showed, and
with this crude but comforting arrangement he took u his pst hard BIZ
the second sack, where he continued his activities
n padded glove "a so joyous tina Arthur cheated a little That fs
hen his injured fingers had got wei being in a bad way, Arthur kent
wearing thu glove, like a kiddy that keeps On being stckish a s long al is
school time The way Arthur improved his fielding average something
70 start,e vu s O after q while along conn John Montgomery Yard (and
John M q story to his separate saf some Of these tims) nd John say.
bein, of q Lawyerish turn If mind even then, that II Arthur keeps o. wear.
Inc bt glove nd fielding SO scandalous perfect, there ust b virtue In a
padded glove, and John gets him q glove his ownsaf IA let's the world
tall.
over the eauv IRWIN idea bat the padded glove. fr all that and everybody
who plays ball today and boasts p.y sort Of a fielding percentage. has A.
Irwin to thank for same
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1912-02-29
Actress Wants $50, 900 a Year,
Or She Refuses to Marry
Pittsburgh Editor.
STEEL KINGS IN PROSPECT

Philadelphia, Pa. Feb. 14.-Lillian
Russell may not be married during next
May after all. Her engagement to AL
exander P. Moore, the Pittsburgh pub
Usher, has been announced. but from
no less a source than the fair Lillian
herself the information comes that
there are certain details to be arranged
before she and Mr.. Moore are declared
one. In speaking recently Of her pros
pective marriage, the actress cast some
doubt upon her becoming Mrs. Moore.
you see," she explained, there are
certain little arrangements Alexander
must make before the ceremony act
ually is performed"
To one of Miss Russelrs close friends
she confided that the chief arrangement
was that Alexander must have an in
come Of at least 100000 a year"
She also is alleged to have made some
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1912-02-29
Al the Same.

A young wife recently went into a
erocer's shop and addressed the grocer
thus: Il bought three or four hams
here q month or SO ago and they were
1hne; have you any more of them?"
"Yes. ma'am," replied the grocer.
there are ten of those hams hanging
up there now"
We'll. II you're sure they're off the
same pig III take three of them" re
pfied the young wife meekly.-Ideas.
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1912-02-29
SAVED FROM
AN OPERATION
How Mrs. Reed of Peoria, ILL.,,
Escaped The Sur.
geon's Knife.
Pecrfn, III wish to let every one
know whatLydia Il. Pinkham'sVegetable

Compound has done
for me. For years
l suffered. The doc
tor said I had a tumor
and the only remedy
was the surgeons
knife. My mother
bought me Lydia E.
Pinkham's Vegeta-
BILE Compound, and
today am a well and
healthy woman. For
IN I suffered
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1912-02-29
A Einancier.

From the Philadelphia Bulletin.
~Boss-There's $40 gone from my cash
drawer, Johnny; you and I were the only
people who had the keys to that drawer.
Office Boy-Well, s'pose we each pay IS
and say no more about It.
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1912-02-29

Benevolent observers, unions n en-
ployers' organizations started offices
where men could inquire for vacancies,
and where the unexpected requirements
Of mines and shops could be met.
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1912-02-29

Why comes temptation but for man
to meet and master and make crouch
beneath his foot, and SO be pedestalled
IN triumph2--Robert Browning.
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1912-02-29

Or. Pierec's Pleasant Pellets regulate
and inyieorate stomach, liver and bowels.
eag1rcoated, tiny granules. easy to take
Do mot grips.
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1912-02-29

from Inflammation, and your Sanative
Wash relieved me. I am glad to tell
anyone what your medicines have done
Tor nae. You can use my testimonial in
any way you wish, and I will be glad
10 answer yetters."- Mrs. CHRISTINA
REED, LOS Mound St., Peoria, III.
NILS. Lynch Also Avoided
Operation.
JessIp, Fa.-"After the birth of my
fourth child, l had severe organic inlam-
nation Iwould have such terrible pains
that it did not seem as though I could
stand IT, This kept up for three long
months, until two doctors decided that
m operation was needed.
"Then one Of my friends recommended
Lydia z. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound and after taking it for two months
WAS . wen woman. Mrs. JOSEPH A.
LyNca, Jessup, Pa.
Women who suffer from female ills
should Try Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegeta-
bic Compound, n of the most ucces
FIJI remedies the world has aver known,
before submitting to q surgical opera
tion.
The Dickinson press., 1912-08-31

toned among the commissioner dis
tricts according to the valuation, met
with approval by the board and seems
to meet approval also Throughout the
county.
The Imperial hotel at Belfeld has
been leased by w. A. Mosher and Theo-.
dore Barrows who remodel and renovate
the building before reopening. Mr..
mosher is N. P. agent at that place
and Mr.. Barrows a telegraph operator.
j. A. Eslick. the owner of the hotel,
will move on his $50 acres neal the
Little Missouri.
John Fisher tells an amusing circum-
stance in connection with thefts by his
supposed hired help q few weeks ago.
The man and woman took along both
keys to the Fisher residence front door
and. the owners being in the country
most of the time, had not had new keys
made. Looking around the attic the
other day where the man donned Mr..
Fishers new suit. they found a few of
his pocket, treasures, among them q
key which it wal found would open both
locks of the front door.
The Dickinson press., 1912-08-31

j. M. Bear of Beach designs the
cover pages of Jim Jam Jems.
Druggist Chernausek returned last
week fto:H: a visit at his old home in
Minneapolis.
H. L. Reichert is spending about ten
days al Hunters Hot Springs recupera-
ting from a recent illness.
W. H. Hanson was in from the Log
ging Camp the first of the week and
took in the Belield- Dickinson game.
Mrs. Gertrude Krebsbach returned Fri
day to Adams. Minnesota, after visit
ing her daughter, Mrs o. C. MaerckIein.
of this city.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. r. Orth autoed in
from Regent the first of the week and
Mrs. Ortiz left for a visit at her old
home in Minnesota.
j. A. Rose who played with the Tay-
lor orchestra at Emerson recently,
pleased the dancers who said he wa
sure a Jim Dandy"
Jim McCutchan. although loyal to
Belfield, wished he could be on both
sides when his son, Vernon, went into
the game for Dickinson Sunday.
Wayne Howe has leased his ranch and
cattle for a year. Just now he and
Mrs. Howe are at his fathers where he
is assisting with the harvesting.
Joe Oukrop was in Monday from New
Hradec and reported oats which have
come on since the hail Is out of danger
from frost and good for 20 to IS bushels
per acre.
According to the Regent paper, Mr..
and Mrs. Julius Hoist of Gladstone
intend establishing a line of elevators
next year on the new Mp. line in Mer-
Ger and Dunn counties.
Representatives of the department OF
agriculture were in Mandan this week
to select a site for the new government
experiment station. The final decision
awaits the report of soil experts.
Among those down from Belfeld for
the ball game were Mr.. and Mrs. Tom
Caesar. Mrs. B. Fritz. Mrs. George Flint,
Mr.. and Ms. D. D. Foft. Fey and Clyde
Barton. J.. P. Galyen and ]. L. Nc
Cutchan.