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SAYS DE MAUPASSANT
ATE FLESH or HUMAN
Famous French Novelist De-
clared to Have Served It
On His Table.

Paris. Special: Guy de Maupessant
as a Cannibal' is the gubject OF q
remarkable "Reminiscences just published
for the first time by a well known med.
fcal man, Maurice Pillet, IN the Sci
entific Review. PIllet recounts that
one day the great writer was coming
out OF his club when a carman sud-
denly fell from the top OF a tall dray
at his feet. De Maupassant picked
him up and took him to a hospital,
but the man died on the way. Asking
to see the house surgeon, who was q
friend OF his, De Manpassant begged
him. as soon as the autopsy was over,
to let him have a piece OF the dead
mans flesh. The next day the doctor
sent q small quantity OF this unusual
meat to De Maupassant, who at once
sent AZ down to his Kitchen, with In
structions to grin 1T for luncheon. After
finishing the grim dish De Maupassant
decided that nnthrophagy need have no
attractions for the European gourmet.
as the human meat was very insipid
and tasted like overdone veal.
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THE STORY OF LUCKY
BALDWiM'S CONVERSION

In the American magazine Peter
Clark MacFarlane has q new series OF
articles entitled. Those Who Have
Come Back. The first story In the sc.
ries is about Lucky Baldwin. q cele-
DRAFTED New York sport" and conf
uence man, who raj converted a good
many years ago In the Jerry McAuley
mission. and now runs a mission OF his
own in Chicago. Following Ia the story
OF Baldwin's first connection with q
gospel meeting. which he fell into for
the purpose OF getting free coffee and
sandwiches. The story goes on:
He sat through q large part OF this
meeting In kind OF bestiai slumber,
but with occasional lucid, intervals
when he stared about stupidity, heard
the testimonies that men around him
were giving. and got some gIfmmering
idea OF the picture OF a clean life that
was being painted.
las he listened in his maudlin way
some sense OF what II meant got
through Lucky's' ridged and knotted
skull. He weighed 1t all swiftly against
his own game. and concluded that the
new scheme was better. The leader OF
the meeting was deaf, and was wearing
2 thing like a telephone receiver upon
his head.
HTellldat guy to telephone To, Gawd
Ia H AuNhg CdA6Q OuL
as he rose and went lurching up the
aisle. He sank on his knees with q
row OF supplicants and was soon asleep,
80 that Mr.. Wyburn. the s~uperintend-
emit OF the mission. who himself had
been reclaimed from drunkenness upon
that floor, came to him he had to be
awakened. As Mr.. Wyburn. kneeling
before the poor wretch, told the story
tr the sufferings OF the One who went
70 the cross. and that 1t was all for
him. Lucky felt himself strangely
moved, A lump came into his throat.
He swallowed at 1t In vain. Something
scalding hot was washing down his
cheeks and splashing on the stained
bottom of the chair. Lucky gazed
at these drops In surprise for q mo-
ment without recognizing them. They
We're tears, hts tears. the first he had
shed since boyhood.
Now pray the puoIican's prayer,
brother, advised Mr.. Wyburn gently.
To his surprise, the drunkard rose
ND hotly, his face like a red and angry
sun: I ain't no republican,. he declared,
with Q look OF loRthing; then added
proudly I'm 2 democrat; that's what
This revealed two things, the mans
deplorable ignorance and his admirable
loyalty, Lucky, vas an adherent OF
the Tammany organization. Here was a
subject upon which he had convictions.
He would no have prayed q republi-
can PRAYER to get himself out OF the
lowest hell
Yet Lucky did pray that night, and
then got up and rocked out into the
street. The missionaries had given him
q 9 ticket, but h q was afraid to go
TO bed. He walked the streets all night.
and his feelings We're the strangest that
q ever come to him. He thought oil
his wasted life. caught a vision OF its
aWfulness, and terrible over
WhelIned him, while he dreamed at
times OF getting some honest work 10
do among Christian people. The idea
of turning back after his new resoiu!
tons there In the mission. never oncs
occurred to him. Lucky, was not d
gutter. He had played one string cuI
to the end. Now he was entering upon
another"
The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1913-10-09

Parts, Sept. Georges C~lemenceau,
ox-prehnier of France, has expressed
the belief that the long expected Eu-
ropean conflagration will occur within
q year. He declares there must be no
delay In putting the three years MILL
tary law into operation. His utterance
has created a profound impression.
General Pau, OF the supreme council
or war, has given YOU correspondent
an official idea of the relative forces.
The general, who lost an arm In the
war OF 1870, says: ~
1T is obvious we have to count on
quality even with the three years mill
tary service. Germany low has 800,-
900 men on q peace footing. Tho new
law Will bring us. up to $4,000! To these
add our excellent troops in the col
onies. Yet even then we shall be in
minority.
Turning To the reserves, Germany
has 4,370.000 men against our 3.97S, 600.
This leaves us in q minority of 100000
men. 6 "
'tft is true the African soldier can be
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Only 3 Per Cont.

NV HNLM 49, WAY
According TO the latest counting OF
pedagogical noses, there are only nine
men in every 100 teachers In Iowa. In
this respect, Iowa seems 70 be q little
worse than n OF the other states, The
fact that teachers salaries are very low
In lows has something to do with the
case, but not everything. School boards
composed exclusively OF men, seem bent
upon forcing out of the chools the few
men who stili teach In Iowa. The young
er men either break into another profes-
sion or 60 out of the. state.
1t Is conceded by the real teachers
among the rome that II fa really AN
injury n Is detriment to the schools TO
cut out the male teachers, and that one
OF the great needs OF Iowa schools Is to
more men In the schools. But leav-
ing this fact out OF the question there
are other points to consider. When the
last FEDERAL census was taken, there was
some surprise because the population OF
the state had actually decreased. Iowa,
the richest state In the union, was losing
population. IL was generally conceded,
however, that little attention was to be
given to this rather unpleasant state OF
affairs, as II was a merely temporary slip
and the census OF 1920 would again show q
very handsome increase for the Hawkeye
state. Unless something more Is done
than simply taking II FOR granted that
our population will increase, the showing
IN 1920 is going TO be worse han that Of
1910. Everybody Is willing thai the fair
sex should have q chance, but IL the male
sex IL to have no chance In Iowa, then II
Is no wonder IL the emigration from this
state continues. s.s =.
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GREAT EUROPEAN WAR
COMING WITHIN YEAR
ASSERTS CLEMENCEAU

brought to Europe to fight for France.
The ~Senegalians make good soldiers.
They are naturally war-like and bear
hardships of all kinds. The French
Soudan supplies the majority OF U
black soldiers.
Our black army Is slowly but surely
forming itself In Africa. There are
10000 Senegallans wearing the French
uniform. This body. can be easily In
creased to 100000. Employed in AL
geria and Morocco. they have shown
admirable qualities.
Austria IS raising its army from
10000 to $4,000 men On q peace foot
Ing. ~
AN outlay OF $500, 900. 900 has been
made by the great powers for army IN
crease. Germany adds 200, 900 men,
France 100000, Russia 100000 and Aus
tria 100000. SO the strength stands
relatively where It was, leaving US
numerically Inferior. but not danger
ously SO.
THE quality Of troops depends upon
instruction and cohesion: these we
have. With the new law there viii be
no, more skeleton r~egimants."
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ART is PERpETuATED sY SLAVES

the american Magazine Walter
Prichard Eaton. dramatic critic fol
that publication, writes an article en-
titled Carrying on the Torch. IA
which he reports the development and
activities of some OF the most wonder.
ful young actors and actresses nov
coming to the front IN the United
States. The following Is an extract
from his article, telling how the really
great actor Is produced:
Amy art which Is worth practlcfne
refuses to be the tool either OF artists
or amateurs, and stu less OF managers
1t insists upon being the master. Thai
IS why you may create yer so manS
Hi-equipped little stars and blazor
their names or the billboarda in anna.
bic little plays, but while D are do
ing 1t some man or woman Will be toll
ing week In and week out In q stock
company to learn to act, driven on by
that impulse to do the thing right
which is what makes real artists; and
he or she viii suddenly come forth In
an ample part, ripely played, and put
all your manager made stars to shame
Every art Is perpetuated, not by Its
business managers. not by its amateurs
or dilettantes, not by the public. but By
the devotion OF the artists who are
born to the purple, which paradoxically
meanB--who are born slaves" .
The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1913-10-09
Tells Others How TO Be Happy
Though Married: Seeks DiuOrce

Lillian hell Bogue. author OF many
books deSsng with the marriage rela-
ton, and supposed authority on the
subject or how to- be happy though
ynarried, is suing for divorce, the de-
PENDANT being Arthur Hoyt Bogue. OF
Ch1aa3o. She will charge nonsupport,
incorporate use OF cigarets. lavish ex-
trayagance and irreligious tendencies.
Before she married, Mrs. Bogue had
good deal TO say about tn selection
Of o husband She wrote d aaagazine
article IN which She contender that any
mar under s5 years OF age was STUPID
and unfit to be a husband. Then she
turned around and married a man OF
2e. She was SO.
She later came to the conclusion
that she should have paid attention TO
her own teachings. "A man will never
tive up drinking for a woman no
matter how he loves her" she sighed
matte but IL win not shield my hus-;
band from criticism any longer"
SHE says that before she left Bogue
last December II became his regular
mode OF living to drink a cup OF the
strongest coffee obtainable on rising in
the morning. and then devote the re-
mainder Of the day to smoking
cigarets.
Elaborating on the charge that her
husband is extravagant. Mrs. Bogue
says that n time he secured an
apartment for a monthly rental of 5000,
which he expected her to pay. She
asserts that she has been the constant
support or the family, through the
medium OF her books. ~
Not long ago Mrs. Bogue interested
n large circle OF persons with her new
articles of faith for married couples.
'"The whole world is suffering from too
much familiarity" she said, advoea-
ting for husband and wife separate
apartments. separate telephones, sep
arate mail boxes and separate bank
accounts. q =. a..
She declared q wife should never see
her husband without a collar, and that
The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1913-10-09
KEEP THEIR HEADS STEADY
Australian Statesman Asserts Womes
Prevent Conditions Of Political
Turbulence.

The prime minister of Australia
where the women have suffrage on
equal terms with men, was interview
ed while on a visit to London IN the
results OF woman suffrage In his coun
try. He Is quoted as saying:
"Women's suffrage steadies political
feeling. In Democratic countries tur
bulence is always 6 danger. Well, In
a time OF political excitement men
will let themselves loose. Women
won't. They don't want Mysteries
They don't want earthquakes. They
are the domestic economists, and they
have to calculate the needs OF theiI
households pretty closely every week
This Is why economic questions are
more carefully studied now and why
you get a steadier, more sober, more
wholesome opinion on all questions
connected with the home"
Possibly no stronger conclusion can
be deduced from the eleven years ex.
p~erience OF woman suffrage In Aus,
traiia than the fact that its national
parliament. by unanimous vote, adopt
ed a resolution declaring its entire
success and calling upon the parlia,
ment OF Great Britain to enfranchisa
women.-New York Evening Post.
The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1913-10-09
ENGLANDiS LAUREATE NOT
II O ON POETRY

England is watching Mr.. Robert
Bridges very carefully these days to
see what sort OF a success he's going
TO make at poet ~laureafing. AS laur-
cate Bridges is the successor of Alfred
Austin. Austin was the successor of
Alfred Tennyson.
One thing is certain: Bridges has not
hitherto produced much work Of the
kind usually demanded of q court poet,
such as odes on national occasions.
Among his few poems of that class
may be mentioned the lines on the
diamond jubilee OF Queen Victoria, en-
titled Regina Cara" his ode in mem-
DRY OF old Etonians who fell In South
Africa, set to music and performed
when King Edward inaugurated the
Memorial hall at Elton, and his peace
ode on the conclusion OF the Boer war.
The appointment of Bridges as poet
laureate has provoked much gentle
raillery on this side of the Atlantic.
Among the American poets, however,
who believe the choice to have been
the best possible one, Is Madison Ca
vein, the famous Kentucky poet.
"All the time our big eastern papers
were commenting on the men likely to
be awarded this great honor, mention
In the limelight, / kept thinking Of this
man whose works / had learned to ad-
.mire beyond expression" says Cawein
Nobody ever mentioned him; no one
even seemed to know of his existence.
He was altogether a dark horse. When
the appointment CAME 1t carried with
It conviction that those who bestowed
the honor sought zeaiously to find the
real poet, not n who might have at
tanned widest publicity or renown,S'
The following tanza was selected by
the American poet from Bridges works
as his favorite:
81 have loved flowers that fade,
Within whose magic tents
Rich hues have marriage made,
. So With sweet, unnumbered scents,
The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1913-10-09
Not So Bad as n MlahS g.

y. Ogden Armour, OF Chicago, In Leslie's.
Personally I think the tariff win not be
harmful, u beneficial. At present there
Is q condition or doubt, but I think that
when the tariff bill Is passed IL will be
found that the anticipation was much
worse than the realization and we shall
settle down when we find new conditions
are less onerous than was expected AWE
Dill Is not revolutionary, bat sane and
! must say the administration n
more sensible n sane than people ex-
pected. The experiment OF taking a man.
a political theorfst without business ex.
perienee, from academic life and placing
him In the presidency was enough 10
cause doubt. but President Wilson seems
to be doing remarkably well. He has
made no mistakes so far. 80
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Ore Who Was Not Present.
From The st. Louis Republic.

From the st. Louis Republic.
keokuk. Ia n Hamilton. Ill, Joined
recently In a two-day celebration over the
completion OF the great dam which
crosses the Mississippi from town to town.
Ihousands OF excursfonists poured In 10
hear the speeches, witness the sports and
take part In the festivities. This was an
ntting andait was peculiarly fitting that
lugn u Cooper, the engineer who built
The lam, should receive the Hons share
OF the honor. .,' 10y ~
But 1t happens that Mr.. Cooper was NOT
present to hear the praisa and congratu.
lations which were Offered to him. re
was IN Europe n has, been there for
some m His wonderful dam began
It's work about two months ago ana his
work was done. The power was turned
on IN 81; Louis July 1 with so little pub
hcity that the most OF the people were
unaware Of the revolution In lighting and
transportation which had taken rIace.
This quiet contamination of a great task
and Mr.. Cooper's quiet departure are
characteristic of men who do big things.
They glory in their w4erk, but leave other
people to, glory over II,
The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1913-10-09

WOMEN At ARMAGEDDoN.
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From the Metropolitan Magazine.

From the Metropolitan Magazine, ~
This whole women,s movement is
not a battle for a mere ballot. These
women were here not only TO demand
political recognition, but to protest
against all unjust conditions under
which the women of all age have
labored. When you think OF the worn
ems movement, therefore, do not let
your mind dwell on the question OF
mere franchise, but loose your imagt-
nation until 1t beholds the wonea Of
the whole world engaged In q battle
with the world old Injustice until you
see that this movement Is already, Tor
one thing, q flaming, on-marching
battle against commerciaiized vice.
When Mrs. Gait offered her resolu-
ton concerning the white slave traffic
there was evident in the audience an
intense. and unquenchable desire to
right this old wrong. There was pity
and more pity, and indignation that
such things could be, and tenderness
toward the victim OF the ages. The
resolutions presented to the congress
read: IN
az I'VE send from this congress- 70
the international Woman Suffrage all
lance a request to the governments OF
all countries here represented that
they institute an international inquiry
into the extent and causes or GEM
merciaiized vice.
(2) BE it resolved that the woman
suffrage organization Of each country
ask its own government to institute 9
national inquiry on the same lines and
that women be included In the COM
mission"
Mrs. Cats speech In presenting the
resolution was eloquent OF womanss
uncompromising attitude toward the
ancient evil
when you AXE away from q class
all Its privileges, the right to earn
money, the right OF education, OF free
speech. Of free publication, IL you take
human beings, you have made OF
them, IL not slaves, economic de-
pendents. You have placed them In .
position where they may be ON
merciaItzed, and Il Is because of this
fact that we have q condition OF COM
mercialized vice.
Again and again In the congress
this spirit OF defense sprang forth like
q white aspiring fame. 1t sprang out
when Miss Royden said that TO teach
a woman that she nay be Indifferent
to the SURFACES OF the world IL she be
devoted TO her home and her family
IL to corrupt the whole moral stand
ard.
An one listened to the applause
which followed this IL seemed that as
II one saw the old and shameful reti-
cences, the SNUG and immoral virtues
burn up In the IRE OF q high tndigna-
tion. Especially was this spirit abroad
In the audience b q listened e
The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1913-10-09
Primary Processes.
From The boston Trnnscrfpt.

From the Boston Transcript.
The "primariesS have come to stay;
our electorate cannot seriously expect TO
see a return 70 the old party caucus which
20 long WAS irresponsible to authority.
The primary being no longer an ex.
pertinent Its operation should be studied
with the view of the Improvement of an
Constitution Every experience that Is
luminous OF defects In the law should be
s az Sr, lns9 a @sS Ss s seas saH t fssl freedom eg 3 81
OF the voter to vote as he wills exempt
from "pressula," and that the process
may be simplified to the fullest extent
consistent with the object OF the basic
Csne or the reforms most urgently de-
manded is the fertilization aof change In
party allegiance. When a voters name Is
once on The party enrolment he can re-
movelt only after the expiration of three
months notice to the proper registering
authorities, Surely this ts too exacting q
requirement.. A 1orenight'S notice should
be sufficient TO enable a nan TO be trans
fefrsd from one party enrolment TO an
other. The clerical labor involved Is not
and cannot be excessive and II Is diff
can be raised. "A Iessening OF the notih-
cation time. to the extent we have sug-
gesteds would be consistent with the pres
ervation OF the principle Of party enroll
direction indicated would render the pr
maries more representative OF changing
public sentiment, since ills perfectly con-
celvable that q voters conyictions may be
90 affected by events occurring between
primaries that he stays away simply be-
the law does not afford him lop-
Y~ortuniNes FOR expressing his real prefer
ence between parties. To be sure, Z rs me
voters duty to chase up the registration
officers in due season, but that involves. q
good deal OF labor, and b Is not sought
by busy men. h IDEAL voter does moi
spare himself In his desire to serve the
COMMONWEALTH, but between the lnfre-
Quent ideal voters are vast spaces or very
real voters. For voters as they are we
must leglslate to make voters what they
should be IN the discharge OF their civic
duties, The primary processes should not
be laborlous TO busy men; they are never
laboriOus to the professional politician
who makes 1t q rule TO know them by
heart. The law should be so simple that
10 who runs may read. as . -.
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Punishment.

r EGg 81. g@ punishment @
Filing along. filing along.
Sec where they come, eight hundred
shutting feet. and fades faces.
Down B aisies, dropping into their
some outstanding. some bowed down.
With grin, or snarl, or sheer, or frown-
Here como the eight hundred OF Dead
mems TOWN.
Filing past. fling past. ~
Nose TO the front and eyes downcast,
Each In his jumper Of shabby blue
with the 20. s, p" and the number,
Twice four hundred, clad as onel
Are they masquers, masquing for fun?
Or souls In hell. all damned n done?
Filing by, fling by, - {
With his boarded secret, never told,
or q life,s IRE qIenched In q world dead
Murder, robbery. falsehood. lust,
PellmeIl into one caldron thrust,
To swim II they can. % to sink IL they
nustI
tFrom the ealdron q cry; why are we
All men are brothers. In uin! Must we FOL
the others atone7
Came answer: All flesh In a prison, whose
More g~rieyous the sword fails on IN,
yelled than eheu unveiled crimet
The hurt that you take may be healed.
not theirs who, biarneless here.
Wear robes snow white before men, hidins
ulcers OF evil and fearD
Filing along, nling along,
Ages OF. folly. hate and wrong.
Each with Its tale OF might Is right.
With IL secret dark, with It's nlskerinr
Ana q Christ on his cross amldst then
Il He deadi VIM He risef Does He heal
our przyerf
VIII He leave US to perIsh In our despair
-Iplian Hawthorne Ia Goyernment Words
the Atlantis PRISON Publication.
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vic Edi.s ths Maaazins.1
From the Milwaukee, Sentlnel

During a recent discussion of the OLD
question, college versus no college, one OF
the contestants remarked that the sub.
stantial monthly magazines were not edit
ed by college graduates. The man who
made the remark was promptly confront.
ed with the following. record:
The Century, edited by Robert Sterling
Yard, Princeton, 1893.
Scrlbner's, edited by Edward L. Bur,
Ingame, Harvard, 1866.
Harpers edited by Henry M. Alden
Williams. 1867.
Atlantic Monthly, edited by Eilery sedg,
wick. Harvard, 1894.
Review OF Reviews edited by Alber'
Shaw. Grinnel, 1875.
worlds Work, edited BY Arthur w
Page, Harvard. 1906.