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The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1914-07-30
Control of Timber.
From the Duluth Herald,


Timber is a public necessity like water
and coal and food. 1t is an essential to
shelter.
public domain. Very little belongs to the
public domain now.
A report just made by Commissioner
Davies of the bureau Of corporations
gives some startling revelations about the
situation of the remaining timber supply
Two men hold 40 per cent Of the tim
Der in southwestern Washington. Five
men own IS per cent Of that In western
Oregon. Six men have 70 per cent Of the
timber in northwestern California. Ten
men have more than half the redwood
area. Four holders have half the timber
In north central Idaho.
A small handful-comparative tim
Der owners, 1894, hold in fee more than
q twentieth of the land area OF the en-
tire United States; and as these men own
bulk of their holdings in the timber coun-
try is enormous. In the 800 timbered
counties investigated they own one-sev-
enth OF the total area. Their holdings
amount to 1906 100000 acres-an area four
fifths the size of France, more than the
entire state of California, twice the area
ly 6oOo0,00O acres, or almost as great
territory as the state of Minnesota.
Getting nearer home, IS per cent Of the
land in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan
is held by 80 timber owners.
THE control Of our standing timber in
q comparatively few enormous holdings"
says Commissioner Davies, speculative
ly held far In advance of any use there
OF, and the great increase in the value
OF timber resulting In part from such
speculative holdings, are underlying facts
that win become more and more important
elements in determining the price OF lum:
Der as the supply of timber dIminishes.
This was all ours; now 1t is theirs: and
they and their heirs will use to exploit
US what once was ours.
1t was foolish to let II CO. An element
Of loss not figured in this report, II 1t
could possibly be figured at all. Is the
waste through private ownership. AL
most any once timbeTed section OF north
ern Minnesota win illustrate it. The
cream Of the timber was taken and much
OF the rest wasted In cutting or burned.
Forests have been leveled, and forest
places laid waste.
when It is remembered that European
governments have forests from which
they have been cutting all they needed for
centuries, and have remaining forests
greater than they started with, 1t will be
realized what a tremendous and meal
oulable loss has been entailed by letting
our heritage of timber go into private
hands.
But 1t has gone, and the milk is split.
We can keep the rest from going IL we
viii. We can preserve our remaining
forests, and we can grow more.
We must do this, II we are to have any
m cans of defense against the peril OF the
supply outside of the government domain.
By conserving what Is left, the govern
ment can keep timber prices down to a
level Of decency, and prevent the ex-
ploitation of the public by timber mon
opoly.
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Wanderers Returning.
From the Washington Timei

FROM the washington Times.
In the mind Of a certain type of man
the best place for him is some other
place. 1t is not the same spirit az that
which actuated the early American pio-
neers. They moved on because of neces-
sity; there was not a living for them
where they were. II there had been the
majority would have stayed and made it
The modern type could make a good liv-
ing where he Is, for he is not lazy, but
he Is not content unless he is moving on
to some promised land OF high wages or
double crops.
The, spirit Of discomfort led to the
abandonment of many good farms in the
east by men who had heard that the west
was the only place for quick fortune The
Vermonter went to Indiana only to And
his Hoosier double had moved to Nebras-
ka, while in turn the Nebraskan had been
drawn to the golden apples Of Oregon.
Westward the star Of empire, etc.
Then, the Pacific barring further wan,
derings toward the setting sun, Canada
became the magnet. The Canadian gov
eminent encouraged our emigrants The
advertisements Of the Canadian railroads
pointed out wealth In the dominion wheat
cans that crossed the border intending to
make Canada their home, and in that
year only 3S,3l7 men came back to the
United States.
Now, it would seem. the tide has turned
In the II months ended June /, only e. =
1886 American citizens emigrated to Can
ada, while In the same period LII re-
turned, many Of them seeking informa-
ton from the department of agriculture
as to the best place to settle. The bal
ance Is still in Canada's favor, but the
change of figures is much more encour-
aging to the United States
Perhaps the wanderers have found the
limit OF their roamings, so far as this
continent Is concerned. Now maybe they
will settle down for their own good. the
good of this country and the happiness of
their families.
1t Is the women and children who suffer
most from mans passion for going some
where else" &C.
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ECZEMA ITcHED AND BURNED

r. r. d. No. 4. Box 56. Holland,
Mich.--'My childs trouble began by
getting red and sore around her neck,
and her face. behind her ears, under
her arms, and different parts OF her
body were affected. The eczema ap-
peared In rash first. Il was wet
and looked as II IL was sweaty. It
seemed to itch and burn 30 that she
could not sleep or rest. II got so bad
at last that behind her ears was one
crust or sore so that had to cut her
hair. There was q hard crust cover
ing her neck. She could not have her
clothes buttoned at all. / could hardly
change her clothes. II caused an aw-
full disagreement for the time. She
would cry when had to wash her.
I'VE had her treated for some time
but without success. ] got one cake
Of Cuticura Soap and one box OF Cuti-
cura Ointment and I had not used
more than half Of what bought when
she was all cured" (Signed) Mrs. @.
@. Riemersma, Mar. 81, 1914.
Cuticura Soap and Ointment sold
throughout the world. Sample OF each
free,with 32-p. Skin Book. Address post.
card "Cuticura, Dept L, Boston."-Adv.
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Snakes Got He RolI.

Il lost 1895 trying to kill rattle
snakes, and now / am going to walk
back to my home In Brooklyn" ex-
planned a man about forty-iye years
old, who said he is Ezra SeIlen.
Sellen said he started for a walk
from his boarding place, encountered
lot Of rattlesnakes, killed some, fed
from the others, waded a stream, and
then missed his roll OF bills. He said
he had just money enough left to ride
to this city and took the state road
out Of town.-Middletown IN ~ Dis
patch to New York World.
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PAID AGENTS AFTER
RUSSIAN EMIGRANTS
Steamship Company, It Is Said.
Has 1000 Emissaries
in Field.

St Petersburg. Special: A political
campaign has been started here against
the Russo-American steamShlp COM
pany and the minister Of the interior
L. giving It some support.
The Nationalist Slav organization
and the societies whose main purpose
u anti-Jewish have issued from their
bureau in Wilma manifesto against
the emigration traffic. 1t says that the
Russo-American company has 1000
agents spread over the six northwest
ern provinces Of Russia Their activ-
ity Is specially damaging in depicting
the countryside OF young people before
the harvest Agents get from 30 to
40 rubles for each emigrant, and they
send out from 10000 to 100000 q year.
When the conscript lists for the army
are prepared from the birth registers
Of 20 years earlier. Il Is found that
about Is per cent of those who should
be recruits have gone abroad without
passports. And the young Russian
emigrants, peasants Of the healthiest
stock. usually draw after them their
brothers, sisters and families.
Hitherto the government campaign
against the company's agents has been
confined to banishing them into the
interior Of Russia, with the result that
their work has been helped and ex-
tended. A case Is mentioned OF Jew
ish agent who had been banished into
the interior for three years for canvass
ing for young emigrants. He says that
In the region to which he was sent he
secured more emigrants In three years
than he had previously done In six
years in his native district.
Meanwhile the government has
drafted q new law on Russian citizen
ship. Some OF its provisions are OF
great Importance to Russians who
have migrated. Hitherto, the law has
been, "Once q Russian, always a Rus
sian" This created dual nationality.
A Russian subject by birth might
naturaliEe as an American, but IL he
returned to Russia he was regarded
as q native Russian subject again.
The new law defines as q criminal and
an outlaw any Russian subject who
has taken out foreign naturalization
papers without legally divesting him
self Of his Russian status. Such "crim-
inals" include persons who up to- "a
years Of age have not done their mill
tary service and deserters or reservists
who ignore the summons sent them at
wartime. Married women cannot lay
down their Russian citizenship separ-
ately from their husbands, nor any
persons against whom any proceedings
or lawful liabilities are pending in Rus
STA. Persons who have lawfully ac-
quired a new citizenship must COM
municate the fact to the authorities of
their native district In Russia. Per-
sons who have wrongfully acquired
foreign citizenship are forever exiled
from. Russia and will be criminally
prosecuted should they return.
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Or Getting Ahead.

From the Webster City PREGNANT Tribune.
Perhaps the story of the young man
making out a note for $1,000 payable to
himself is only myth, but It Is good
man can. do with great profit to himself
This young man, so the story goes, made
a note for 1900 payable to himself in five
years The note drew 8 per cent inter
est. The young man put so in the bank
each month and at the end Of the year
drew out $50 to pay the interest He then
invested the $50 In interest bearing paper.
He remained firm in his determination to
pay off the note at maturity and did so
with his $50 month, and had quite O
neat sum left the interest having aided.
This gave him quite q start He then
signed a note for 5000 payable In Ave
years and Is now working to pay that off,
At the end OF the i've years he viii have
quite q snug little fortune and will have
acquired habits OF industry and frugality
that must eventually make him the build
er Of a large fortune. It Is worth trying.
The young man who tries 1t must prac-
tice self-denial and perhaps hardshtps IL
he IL to succeed, but self-denial and hard
ships make strong, self-reliant men.
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My life is gliding downward: It speeds
swifter to the day
When 1t shoots the last dark canon to the
Plains Of PARKWAY,
But while its stream Is running through
the years that are to be,
The mighty voice of Canada will ever call
to me.
I shall hear the roar of rivers where the
rapids foam and tear.
l shall smell the virgin upland with the
balsam-laden air.
And shall dream that I am riding down
the winding, woody vale.
With the packer and the packhorse on
the Athabasca Trail.
I have passed the warden cities at the
Eastern water gate,
Where the hero and the martyr laid the
corner stone Of state,
The hahitant. cureur-des-bois-and hardy
voyageur,
Where lives breed more strong at need
to venture or endure?
have seen the gorge OF Erie, where the
roaring waters run.
have crossed the Inland Ocean, lying
golden In the sun,
But the last and best and sweetest Is the
the ride by hill and dale,
With the packer and the packhoTse on the
Athabasca Trail.
Til dream again of fields Of grain that
stretch from sky to sky,
And the little prairie hamlets, where the
cars go roaring by;
Wooden hamlets, as 1 saw them-noble
cities still to be,
To girdle stately Canada with gems from
sea to sea.
Mother of a mighty manhood, land Of
glamour and of hope,
From the eastward sea-swept islands to
che sunny western slope:
Ever more my heart Is with you, ever
more till life shall fail,
IN be out with pack and packer on the
AthabasCa Trail.
Arthur Conan Doyle
Jasper Park. Alberta, June Is, 1914.
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FULL BABYL0NIAN FLOOD
. YARN TO BE MADE KNOWN

London. Special: DR.. Stephen Lang
don, professor Of Assyriology at Oxford
university, and the only American
holding a PROFESSIONAL chair at TIE
senior university. said today:
Il would esteem 1t a favor II you
would cable to the effect that scholars
and psychologists had better wait for
the full account of my discovery of the
new Babylonian version Of the food
and the fall Of man translated by me
from tablet found in the museum Of
the University Of Pennsylvania. / ask
this because the reports so far printed
in American newspapers are inaccurate
and misleading.
Il am preparing a full and correct
account, and this should be read and
digested before anv Judgment is pro-
nounced on the work, as the clippings
which have reached me from the Uni
ted States are misleading and dis
tressing."
Professor Langdon promises that his
manuscript will be ready in a few days.
The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1914-07-30

Browning, Mont.-Spo-Pe, once a
mighty hunter OF the Blackfoots, but
for q third Of century a prisoner of
the government In an eastern prison,
has returned to his people. He will
spend the remainder of his days with
his daughter, Mrs. Takes Gun, who
lives near Browning.
OF the old Indians family only this
one daughter remained to welcome
back the father who was taken away
by the palefaces 33 years ago. She
was q papoose when Spo-Pe, carrying
out q vow Of vengeance, slew q white
man, so that the souls OF his mother,
father and a score Of his people might
find rest in the happy hunting grounds,
whittier they had been hurried by a
troop Of United States cavalrymen.
Mrs. Takes Gun, when Sho-Pe went
away, was just a little girl; her name,
Ne-tang -nik-ke, rendered in the
tongue Of the palefaces, was Kills
Alone. Her baby sister, not yet
christened when the father was torn
from the tepee to answer to a charge
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OF murder. has died, as has spo-Pe'G
wife.
A pardon from President Wilson re-
leased Spo-Pe from his long imprison-
ment. Mrs. George Hamilton, a little
Blackfoot squaw, was principally in
strumental in bringing to the know
ledge OF those in authority the story Of
his wrongs and in arousing from its
long lethargy the dormant. memory Of
the days that used to be before the
white men had taken almost all of the
Indians hunting ground in the west.
While the government may not give
Spo-Pe an allotment Of land, it has
promised to take care Of him as long as
he lives. This much, 1t is believed is
due SpoPe as some slight measures Of
reparatlon for the wrong that was done
him and for the Imprisonment for 33
years for crime that was in reality
not a crime, but the execution Of a
vow--a pious vow, as the Blackfoots
looked upon ito avenge the staying
Of his people and to give rest to their
restless souls.
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PRIZE FOOD.
PalatabIe, Economical, Nourlshlng,

A Nebr. woman has outlined the
prize food in few words, and that
from personal experience. She
writes: ..-. ~. .
after our long experience with
Grape-Nuts, cannot say enough in
It's favor. We have Used this food al
most continually for seven years.
I'VE sometimes tried other adver-
dsed breakfast foods but we invariably
returned to Grape-Nuts as the most
palatable, economical and nourishing
Of all. ..
when / quit tea and coffee and
began to use Postum and Grape-Nuts,
was almost q nervous wreck. was
90 irritable could not sleep nights,
had no interest in life.
After using Grape-Nuts a short
time began to improve and all these
ailments have disappeared and now
am well woman. My two children
have been almost raised on Grape
Nuts, which they eat three times q
day.
They are pictures Of health and
have never had the least symptom Of
stomach trouble, even through the
most severe siege OF whooping cough
they could retain Grape-Nuts when all
else failed.
"Grape-Nuts food has saved doctor
bills, and has been, therefore, q most
economical food for US"
Name given by Postum. Co, Battle
Creek, Mich. Read "The Road to Well
WIFE," in pkgs There's a Reason"
Ever read the above IetterR A new
enc appears from tfnae to time. They
are genuine, trues and fun Of humnn
hterenR.
The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1914-07-30

Women Change subject Too oftenf
In the Woman's Home Companion
Margaret Busbee Ship. writing Iowa
story entitled Sweet Margaret" pre-
SCENTS character who comments, az
follows, on woman's conversation:
"T never had a sister, and have
never known how to talk to women.
They embarrass me; they or -
change the subject 30 often, never
seem quite to catch up"
The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1914-07-30
careIessness Cause Of Fires.

More than so per cent Of all fires the
coused by simple carelessness, which
10 unnecessary and criminal. Repairs
to dilapidated buildings, the removal
all fire-breeding material, care in burn
ing weeds and rubbish, the placing of
engines at safe distance from build
ings, the removal of oily waste, proper
yentilation-in brief, plain common
sense. will minimize the danger from
this class of fires.
The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1914-07-30
The Tango In Church.

Mother, like countless other moth.
ers, had been doing much tangoing
and hesitation Of late. She had taken
dancing lessons. She practised the
various steps at home with father. Lit.
tie Frances had heard much of the
lingo that goes with the tango and the
hesitation. She knew all Of the
phrases. #.s.. ..... ...,
A few days ago Frances went to
church with her mother. Frances had
not learned all of the ceremonials of
the church, for, after the mother knelt
outside the pew, Frances looked up at
her and whispered: ."
Mother, what did you do the dip
for 2"-Indianapolis News.
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DAISY FLY KILLER
Absurd Comment.

Theodore Dresser, the realist, said
Of an idealist at the Players club An
New York:
The mans comments on Life ara
ludicrous and absurd. They remind ma
of the old lady's comment on the WORN
of the militant suffragettes.
After the suffragettes in London
had slashed a Valesquez, BeIlini and
a Gentle, the old lady said, with q
kind Of sanity expression:
But, thank goodness, they're an
old pictures that are being slashed.'
The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1914-07-30

A representative Of an American syn
dictate Is exploring Peruvian placer gold
fields. An engineering examination
last year was so favorable that it Is
proposed to carry on operations on the
Maranon river, should the government
grant the privilege. There is much
placer gold in a large territory there,
but the country is remote from trans
portation, and settlement!and profitable
results will depend on how successfuIF
ly these and other obstacles can be met
The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1914-07-30
Cant Find This Perfect Woman.

Belgium has been trying to discover
the perfect woman. According to a
symposium in Brussels, she must pos
sess the figure of an American, the
elegance Of an English girl, the hair of
an Austrian, the eye of an Italian and
the profile of Spaniard. So far the
creature has eluded discovery.
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graphical objection to either of them, II,
indeed, there could possibly be a geo.
graphical reason against the right man for
such an appointment. Each has done a
share Of public service, and made a mea-
sure of personal sacrifice In the doing Of
II, that deserves consideration. Each is
known to and has received high mark of
the confidence Of presidents representing
both the old political parties. In short,
there Is every reason for the belief that
the appointment might logically lie be-
tween these two.
The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1914-07-30

Notwithstanding his French surname,
Daniel Defoe, author Of Robinson Cru
Eoe." was. an Englishman. He was
born In London In 1861 during the reign
OF ChaIles II. he died In 1874. -.
The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1914-07-30

The London county council in its sta
tistical abstract for 1912-1913, furnishes
the following concerning London. Pop
lIation, 4.521 900; inhabited houses, 573.-
900: birth rate. 245 per 900: death rate.
las per 1900. ratable value. s226.000. 600.
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The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1914-07-30
Hard TO Stand.

Skids-It's not every one that Caz
stand prosperity.
Skittles-Particular il It's sOnnS
one else's.-Judge.
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Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1914-12-13
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