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The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1914-12-17
One Girl That Wanted a Man.
BY G. r. Morris.

A group of girls were recently shocked
when one OF their numbers. a recruit from
the country, said In a nice way and quite
candidly: 81 have come to town to get
man and want a good one. No scrubs
for me-" see no reason why she should
not get one and q good one. for she has q
fine looking healthy, wholesome missfit to
be a mother OF fair women and brave men
and to be ar inspiring partner In a sue
cessful home. The other girls no doubt had
often looked forward to love, marriage
and motherhood and home management
including the enevitable man. When she
spoke her thought frankly they took to
the woods and said II was so ipdelicate.
One afterward said even II a girl thinks
that way 1t Is not nice for her to say It.
Yet none OF them thought there was any
thing indicate about learning to teach.
TO keep books, to typewrite, or otherwise
to equip for the pursuit OF a career in
business. That had become quite con-
ventionaL Tt was only the supreme In
terest In woman's life. the thing for
which nature through all the ages has
been fashioning her. The function with
out which there would come a swift end
to the race that could not be spoken Of
directly. Was the girl from the country
at fault or Is coyness really preferable to
candor7 So far as this rosy checked, able
and willing to work, honest country girl Is
concerned, she Is right In every spot and
place and girls watch her.
The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1914-12-17
NEEDLE pEFlEs SCIENCE.
Fugitive Bits Of Steel in the
Body Enigma for Doctors.
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From the Kansas City Star.

rrOIn the Kansas City star.
Don't step on Leedlei
A needle point in the human body
Is almost as hard to find as a needle
In a haystack." Every surgeon knows
that so well that he would almost rath-
er be called upon to make a major sur
gical Operation than to go cutting and
prodding around among the intricate
muscles and bones OF the hand and
foot In search OF the fine point OF q
cambria needle. ar r.. $50
In the large hospitals scarcely a day
passes without an operation to remove
needle point and the chances are
about even as to whether the tiny point
Of steel will be found or not. VT -.a
The first thing done is to make an
X-ray picture OF the hand or foot
This shows the needle point Embedded
in the flesh. But even with this as a
guide where to cut the most skilled
surgeon may not succeed in finding the
needle. alNk
In Kansas City spent an hour and a
half searching for a needle point In
the palm Of woman's hand, and, al
though the X-ray photograph showed
where 1t was, he did not find II. The
following morning he resumed the
search, with the patient under an an
aesthetic, for half hour and then
gave up the attempt. ..' .......
Where a needle point Is not found 1t
hardly ever makes serious trouble. II
bitches its way along IL the flesh with
every movement OF the muscles, caus-
ing considerable soreness, until II
reaches a place beside a bone or in a
muscle where 1t can rest with freedom
from muscle movement, and then its
presence is seldom felt and 1t will lie
there through q lifetime. Or Ii may
work its way to the skin, where 1t will
cause a pimple and may be drawn out
with the fingers. .-.. .. a.la.
The best thing to do II you get a
broken off needle point into you Is to
go straightway to a good surgeon and
have him operate for Its removal, even
II he does tell you that it's an even
break whether or not he finds It. ra
The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1914-12-17
Our Inadequate Agriculture.

Robert w. BrueTe IN Harpers Magazine.
Economists tell us that the cause Of
high prices Is to be found In the alb
normal increase OF the worlds gold
supply, in the "brigandage Of the mid
dlemen." In the growth OF luxury, the
aggression Of labor, and all manner OF
disturbance In the industrial world.
But there Is yet another explanation
which has not received the consider
alton its reasonableness demands. In
great agricultural states like Illinois
and Iowa less land Is under cultivation
today than II years ago; many Inn
portant counties In states like Ohio are
producing less food than they did be-
fore the civil war. During the last
census period population in the United
States increased al per cent. but agri-
cultural production increased 10 per
cent only. To meet an Increase of 81
per cent In the number OF mouths to
be fed. the production of wheat In
creased only 3.S per cent, Of orchard
fruits 1.8 per cent, while the produce
ton Of corn actually fell off by 4.3 per
cent. .... .s
The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1914-12-17
RESUME OF IMPORTANT
NEWS EVENTS OF WEEK

measures. President Wilson said he
would oppose the proposed investiga-
ton into the nations military prepar-
edness IL urged for an opinion.
Great Britain and Italy have pro-
tested to the state department against
the Arizona law, which requires at
least 80 per cent Of the employees of
certain institutions to be American
OF treaty between the United States
and the two countries, ii is said.
Frank Ryan, alleged head OF q
"clairvoyant ring in Chicago, makes
O confession to the states attorney
and says that his share OF the pro-
ceeds OF the swindling operations,
conducted with the consent Of certain
members of the police department.
amounted to $4,000 a month.
It is reported that General Christian
DeWet, leader Of revolutionary
troops In the Union Of South Africa,
may be shot by the British. He was
captured after a chase across the veldt
by motor brigade.
Breeders of blooded cattle from all
parts Of the country met in Chicago
and organized the National Swine
Growers association.
Rear Admiral Alfred Thayer Mahan,
retired. noted naval expert and wri-
ter. whose works are said to have in
spired increased naval ornaments of
the world powers. died at his home in
Washington. .N. .r. .t
Gov G.. w. p. Hasn't, of Arizona, dis
appointed at the failure Of the voters
Of the state to adopt his pet measure.
abolishing capital punishment, an
nounced that he will invite certain
men, who fought the measure. to be
legal witnesses at the hanging OF II
convicted murderers. 81. ...
The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1914-12-17
European Railroad Gauges.

From the Engineering Record
There are several railway gauges
or widths between the two rails OF
the track-in Europe. but in the Uni
ted States and Canada IL Is possible for
a truck to travel from Prince Rupert
to New Orleans, and from Quebec to
San Francisco without hindrance. This
was accomplished at great expense
some 20 or 80 years ago. In Europe the
bulk OF the mileage Is the standard f.
foot 3h-inch gauge. There are, how
ever, some other gauges, especially the
meter gauge In France, Belgium, Italy,
Spain and Portugal. The most inn
portant exceptions are In Spain and
Portugal, where they have nearly TO-
900 miles OF the 5-foot, 6-inch gauge.
and in Russian and Finland, where
there are $4,000 miles of the 5-foot
gauge. This 3h-inch difference from
the standard was adopted by the Rus
sian government to avoid the dangers
OF invasion. The only connection be-
tween France and Spain is at Irun, on
the Biscayan coast, but the Pyrenees
are now being pierced at more than
one placed, and a question OF conform
ing the gauge of Spain and Portugal
TO that Of the bulk Of Europe has
arisen.
The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1914-12-17
A Boy 10 a Boy.
BY c. II. Morris.


One day a precious book was missing
from the table and 3-year-old child was
strangely quiet. Pa started an investiga-
tion. No sign OF kiddie In his usual
haunts but In the bath room there was a
splash and when pa opened the door the
book was sinking, while the hope of the
tone: Boat, Dada, Boat" You could not
and should not blame baby. You could
only try thereafter to keep priced books
out OF pabys reach. Instead OF a book
you could supply boat, which suggests a
parallel. Courage, fortitude, willingness to
dare and suffer are qualities which hui
mainly cannot spare. In order that they
may be developed II Is not necessary that
childish craftsmanship should be per-
mitted to play with man killing toys We
can take away these zeppelins and their
guns and let the useful tools OF industry
and Innocent sport replace them. Clearly
that Is the way to insure the worlds fIi-
ture peace. SO help to form the world 8
opinion for 1t and we will have no more
wars. #.. Is NJ
The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1914-12-17
10 Germany Facing Starvation7
From the Chicago Herald.

The apparent attitude OF the German
government toward it's Belgian captives,
for that Is what they seem to be, since
we hear that they are forbidden TO leave
the country, Is extremely difficult to UNI
derstand. Under such circumstances as
the Germans appear to be In II has been
the custom OF the besieged military force
to turn out the noncombattants and to
endeavor to throw the burden OF feeding
them upon the enemy. There has been no
intimatton that the allies would drive the
Belgians back II the Germans drove them
out or permitted them to depart.
Tho reported refusal to permit the Bel
CLANS to buy food in the adjacent German
districts also sounds strange. 1t appears
to reveal conditions approaching actual
distress In Germany. whose existence has
been most strenuously denied by the Ger
man press. When communities refuse
even to sell food to other communities
only few miles away the situation looks
as IL the former saw near at hand for
are facing.
The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1914-12-17
SOME PEOPLE GET ON
NERVES OF A WATCH
From Piarnon.a Weeklx.

One Of the troubles Of watchmakers
IL the man who gets on his watch's
nerves. There are lots Of customers on
whom good watch Is wasted. A good
second hand watch that has kept per-
feet time for other people viii. with
certain other people. go irregularly
when Il IL not standing still. 1t is
common knowledge in the trade that
watches are greatly influenced by their
owners. .~. H.
Nobody knows the reasons, but two
explanations have been offered. One
IL that watches are sensitive to per-
sonal magnetism, the natural electric
ity that human beings contain In vary
ing quantities.
The other Is that q watch may be
disturbed by the vibrations set up by
q footstep which is heavier than the
ordinary. The man who puts his heels
down heavily usually needs to set the
regulator towards SLOW to keep 1t
from gaining.
One Of the mysterious sides Of the
subject IL that watches seldom keep
good time on people Of nervous, excit-
able temperaments.
The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1914-12-17
An Honest Community.
From Dubuque Ha.) Telegraph-Hel

'Everybody:s honest in Springdale. Is
the assertion Of a correspondent from that
place. writing in the Davenport Democrat.
Editortally that paper declares ft Is a third
reason why the town Is entitled to recog-
milton. The first Is that this Cedar county.
Iowa, hamlet Is the former Headquarters
or John Brown, of Harper's Ferry fame.
and the second II that the town is the
center OF a. community OF Friends or
Quakers. The real claim to diJtinction,
however, rests on the fact a merchandis-
ing firm has just disposed OF Its enter
prise and 1t was found that after Is years
credit there was but 300 on the books.
Most Of this probably viii be paid. What
a tremendous saving on sleep would this
town have afforded had the late Diogenes
resided there.
The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1914-12-17
From the Chicago Tribun,

A bronze reproduction OF the queerest,
ciunisiest funniest little old railroad car
course OF the new Chicago q Northw .s-
tern railroad terminal yesterday. The
original was built In 1864, and was the
nrst railway postal car In the country.
George b. Armstrong; name appears
bslow the reproduction of the car, because
Il was his idea that brought the railway
mail service into existence. The Chicago
duction made because 1t was the first
source Of encouragement to the persistent
inventor. The railroad furnished the
financial backing. and on August 28 1854.
And Clinton, Ia IL was the knell OF the
stage coach. BY 1867 two more mail cars
had been built and put into service be-
tween Chicago and Fort Howard. Wis.
and between Boone and Council Bluffs.
The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1914-12-17
Where Blood Ties Don't Count.
From the Chicago Herald.

What makes the resistance Of King Al
bert, Of Belgium, all the more heroic IL
the fact that both he and his charming
wife have German blood In their veins.
majesty's most intimate friends were the
kaisePs sons. The queen of the Belgians
Is also a namesake and goddaughter of
the murdered empress OF Austria, who
was her aunt, and she has always main
tained the most affectionate relations vita
her uncle. the aged emperor of Austria.
The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1914-12-17

Moving a clock a distance OF mile
from one house to another Tn Way
cross. Ga, caused II to resume work
after II had lain idle for seven years
Jewellers had failed to start 1t going
but the jolting succeeded.
The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1914-12-17
Cost Of stolen Walton.

From inc z, y. Monitor. l.
Kalamazoo, Mich.--The city received a
check for SIS, 4Q6.18 from the Standard
Paper company In settlement Of the judy
ment secured against the company for
taking city water through a bypass with
out metering, says a report to the Grand
Rapids PresA
The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1914-12-17

There Is a plant growing on noun
tains In central Europe that develops
enough heat to push It's flower stallrs
through snow and produce blossoms.
The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1914-12-17

Farmers In the Philippines raised
1E00000o bushels Of corn last year.
valuA, $12.300. 900.
The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1914-12-17
q 4 O

Adding them up, he said You will
- king OF Prussia Ia 1S49," which
came true. E
They were already talking Of lar
Gsr Germany (the consolidation OF the
German states). and william wanted
20 know IL he would ever be emperor
- the large empire
The astrologer set down the figures
is%S In the following arrangement:
"a O.
The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1914-12-17
INFALLIDLE PROPHET
FORETOLD GREAT WAR
Han Who Guessed Dates For
Kaiser's Grandpa Men
toned 1918.
From the New York sun.

=. ShVhl INC lNeW 1OIk gun.
y prominent German OF this city
mowed to an officer OF one OF our i'm
po<tAnt banks an interesting horo-
1922 that was made In 1929 by an
oDerologer for Emperor William,
grandfather OF the present kaiser OF
Germany. and said that the predic-
uens contained in IL were more or less
nnOwn throughout Germany.
Tho earlier William asked him II he
would be king Of Prussia. For an an
gNor the astroloser took the figures
1a7t. (the year OF the consultation,
md arranged them In the following
nanner;
1872
The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1914-12-17

Then he replied: You will be en-
peror OF the larger Germany In 1871"
which was the date OF the conquest Of
ths French and the establishment of
kh0 German empire. H.,
He asked how long he would live to
enjoy his sovereignty over the larger
empire. and the astroioger placed the
dgures 1871 an follows:
~ 1871 p. ..-
The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1914-12-17

The Breslau police examine aoopt
roo moving picture films week
The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1914-12-17

The presidents message, which will
be read TO congress at the Forthcoming
session, will deal with the conserva-
ton bills, the bill for q government
owned merchant marine, the Philip
pine bill and the regular appropriation
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-08
The Triumph of Aerial Navigation

1t would seem that the wild flights
of fancy and mental vagaries of Jules
Verne are to be reduced to pigmyan
proportions by the aerial feats of the
next year. Chimerical as the scheme
may appear the Aero Club of Ameri-
ca has announced that in May, 1915,
race of aeroplanes will be attempted
incircling the earth in 80 days, the
first prize winner to receive 100000.
The money will be raised by the
Panama-Pacific exposition and the
Pacific Aero club of San Francisco,
and it is expected that the prizes will
aggregate something over 100000.
The start is to be made at San Fran
cisco and the race is open to any type
of motor-driven air craft. The races
are to start eastward, cross the
| states, skirt the coast of Labrador,
and, crossing Iceland, the Hebrides
and Asia, return by way of Alaska.
This route has been selected as pre-
senting the smallest body of water to
be crossed, namely that between Lab
rador and Iceland and Iceland and the
Hebrides. When these two stretches
of water have been sailed over in safe
ty the race will have been practically
completed.
Bird men all over the country have
expressed their confidence in the feast
bility of the scheme and the success of
the undertaking SO that if their pre-
dictions are realized we can no longer
limit mans possibilities. ~
Who can presage what the next CEN
tury has in store in the way Of dis
covery and achievement? Physical ac-
quaintance with Mars is not possible,
but it is not too much to say that in
hundred years communication with
that planet may be established. Such
communication has been predicted by
the astronomers Lowell and Flamarion
and it should not be placed beyond the
pale of possibilities when the great
strides of the past half century are
taken into consideration
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-08
LUKE N'LUI<E SAYS

From the Cincinnati Enquirer.
The old shioned tads who used to stav
home nights and play dominoes and
checkers may have missed a lot OF fun.
but they seldom suffered from locomotor
ataXia.
1t is none of my business, bur why do
they put about $l00 worth of lightning
rods on church.
Anyway, a girl would rather have her
stockings well filled and have Jacob $
ladders i'm them than have thin props and
have her hosiery last longer.
Why is it that a man who has a well
formed wife always wants to chase a
woman with a shape like a hot water
bottle just because she is some other
mans wife?
What has become of the old fashioned
man who always carried pocket full of
brass bar checks?
1t pays to behave. If your sins do not
find you out your wife will
When she is 13 she wants her skirts
longer When she is 90 she starts maxi
ing them shorter.
Some OF these days a good listener is
going to get into politics and his popu-
larity will show up the good takers
The woman who wears invisible stock
ings and some ta1cum powder all winter
is always afraid her husband will catch
cold every time <he changes his under
wear.
Praying to be led away from tempta-
ton won't help any when you have one
eye open to get peek at temptation.
If some of the princesses could cooK
as well as they can tango there wouldn't
be SO many divorces in 1916.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-08
Gentlemen Out of a Job

Europe is acquiring quite sprink-
ling of pretenders to the crown and
deposed monarchs who may be de-
nominated as individuals minus job
Conspicuous among them are the DUO
d'Orleans, pretender to the throne OF
France; Pince Victor Bonapart, a
claimant for the same position; Dor
Jamie, who aspires to the thrones OF
both Spain and France, and last and
certainly least ex-King Manuel of
Portugal.
This last mentioned scion of royalty
only won his bride, who was the
daughter of German prince, by sign
ing a remuneration of all his claims to
the monarchy, and when the fact
leaked out the King of England, who
had been paying him an annual stipend
of $4,000 out Of his private pocket,
Immediately suspended the pension.
This act of Manuel caused con-
ference to be held among the Bra
ganzas which resulted in the exacting
of a pledge by the members of that
house to support the claims of Dom
Miguel to the Portuguese monarchy.
All, however, was not plain sailing.
Miguel is 81 years of age and deems
himself too far advanced in life to
undertake the burdens which a cam
paign for ascedency imposes and his
son, of the same name, who is married
to wealthy American girl, has for
merly renounced his claim as the royal
heir The elder Dom Miguel, however,
had married second time, and has
by this marriage a son but 7 years
of age, who has been the official rep
resentative of the royal line and it is
around this infant that the Braganzas
and their following are rallying.
1t may presaged as almost a GER
tainty that the Portuguese republic
] is firmly established and has come tc
Ntay. Indeed Spain would follow il
Ne footsteps Of the Iberian peninsula
wore it not for the personal affection
that the Spaniards entertain for theil
monarch. We may look for Spanish
republic at Alfonso's death, if not
sooner, for popular opinion is very
tickle.
Uneasy lies the head that wears q
crown seems to be as replete with
truth as it is with poetry, and about
the only sensible thing that Manuel
ever did was to reinquish royalty foi
wife.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-08
Affected by DIR. EdmOnds

"I have seldom known a man that so
affects my daily life and that of so man,
young men of this community as does
DR.. j. IT. Edmonds of the South High
lands Presbyterian church, said John D.
Turner yesterday. "Since he came to this
city he has crowded that church with
young men and | have known many in
stances where local members and nom
members of his church delayed leaving
town on business on a Saturday might
in order to hear him preach on Sun
day.
He Is such a human man and so de-
lishtful companion that men, especial
ly younger men, are drawn to him ir-
resisubly. lie is a mans man, every
inch of him and one that any man can
admire. He is very earnest and / can
not recall anyone that has so stirred
people into the right way of thinking as
DR.. Edmonds. His mastery of English Is
wonderful and he works up word pic
lures wonderfully"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-08
Drainage Needed

After heavy rains such as occurred
last week, in some of the outlying por-
tions of newly annexed city territory,
great wet weather lakes are formed and
for lack of proper drainage facilities the
water reamns in the low levels until
evaporated," said a citizen of West End
This is particularly true in some parts
Of West End and Cleveland. In many
instances only small amount of labor
would be required on the part of the
city authorities to remedy the evil. The
great aceumulations of stagnant water, II
allowed to remain undrained, this spring
would become the breeding place for mo-
squitoes and numerous other pests and
disease spreading germs. In some places
it seems that there were formerly drain
age pipes in operation, but through neg
leet these have become filed with trash
and other debris, so that the needed out
let is no longer afforded. In cases such
as this the expense incurred in giving the
needed relief would be nominal"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-08

GAVE ALL FOOD TO DOGS

Frcm the Baltimore News.
Parsippany n Amos Morgan,
an s3-year-old hermit, was found dying
OF hunger and cold yesterday in his log
cabin in the woods here. In the Sc
we're weather of two weeks ago he
slipped and sprained his ankle. Unable
to walk, he broke up what furniture
he had in the house to keep the stove
going. He gave all his fod to his two
collies, and went hungry himself.
After the supply was exhausted Nor
gan crawled to his door and opened 1T.
There was good sized pig in a pen
nearby. and he ordered the dogs to
bring it out. This they did and food
FOR another week was obtained.
The aged recluse finally became un-
conscious. The bowling of the dogs
attracted Abram Hettinger, a farmer
nearby, and with others he went to the
nut to find the aged man nearly dead.
IL is though he cannot recover.