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The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1914-02-12
EAST INDIA FUNERAL PYRE
ImmeIation Of Silent Figure While
Brother Looked on In .
Bitter Grief.

Even as we came opposite the bear
ers lifted one Of them all cool and
dripping, from the river and set It,
the slim, small figure, so quiet, 30
content, on q haif-built pyre, G. F.
Benson writes in the Century. Brush
wood and fagots we're built over 1t
and at the head and foot and sides
the fire wac applied. A Brahman d.
rected the rites and once, as the
flames mounted and aspired, the
brother, who was watching, clutched
at his heart as there appeared for a
moment at the top of the pyre a
girls face. with closed eyes and
mouth that seemed to smile; then the
radiant veil of flame shrouded It
again. The smoke rose in gray
whorls and streamers against the
stainless and tender blue of the sky,
and still the brothSr. watched, quiet
again and composed; he had given
only that n sign to show that he
loved her whose ashes now lay among
the charred and smoldering logs. Or
rather 1t was only for the moment
that. thinking of days of childhood
and dawns by the riverside. he forgot
that 1t was not she who had been
consumed in the flames Of the pyre.
Then he remembered again, and look
ing up from the pyre to the dazzling
river he saw there on our boat his
friend. the Brahman. and smiled to
him.
The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1914-02-12

Uncle Michigan turned to Aunt Abby
You're church folks. and / done beer
an ole whisky peddler Johnny Reb."
You done been an U31 fool. Dnctt
Michigan! You sit right here till sup
per's readyI"
Right here till supper's ready" add.
ed Mr.. Curran. Here's some more O
this letter.
But not any word about comm
home!"
She'll get home. She says up In
Waterloo the comedian got drunk and
nearly busted up the show. And thai
night they had to cut out her big stu
alton"
WHAT" gasped Aunt Abby. "cut Out
her-what%"
We'll. it can't be serious or they'G
Biographical"
T guess so. She says Mr.. Hamburg
changes his play so much they just
can't keep up with 1t in rehearsals, but
that Sol GratZ thinks pretty soon they
will get 1t all over.
Get ove whatever the operation
/ suppose. Wfley?"
She's picking up this stage slang
SO fast she must be getting on. 1 swear
It's a fine letter"
Aunt Abby was peeking at it over
AAAO AAGLN jim AEoAhT
IL any one eve hears from Harlan Van
HART"
Wiley sighed. yes. She-sort Of
knew Harlan" He folded up the let
ter and handed it to Uncle Michigan
who stared at it as If it was a jewel.
II reckon" mumbled Uncle Michi-
gan. you done better keep this in your
safe at the office. MI. Curran."
THAT safe rusted shut in '96. Uncle
Mich-the time the creek flooded the
News office-and it's never been opened
since"
well you better keep this letter in
the clock. Mr.. Curran-or somewhere
l wouldn't lose 1t for the best leg / got"
He handed 1t back to Mr.. Curran, and
the editor locked it in the clock ease
when / git lonesome. I'll come up here
and Welrll read it all over again. Kind
o lonesome at the ole place,
John he's sourin' on the world,
Keeps the boys cuttin' brush. And the
baby's ailin'. And the woman's frettin'.
Seems like the sun don't shine So
bright since Aurelie went away"
Don't 0 worry, Uncle Mich. She'll
come back rich and famous. and every
body'l be happy, and she'll give a show
in the tin opera house."
Uncle Michigan's eyes shone again.
Just as Ole Captain Tinkletoes proph-
esied down in Louisany! She'll done
grow up to occupy the land!"
Mr.. Curran's eyes shone. too. He had
been told Aurelie's fantastic story, on,
these many times! He had gilded il,
enshrbped it-loved it.
"Our little girl: Uncle Mich!" he cried.
"Out in the big world fighting her way,
and not being scared! / never think
Of how che came to me but I want to
gather her UP and shelter her, protect
her"-he stopped slowly-"love her"
he sighed. Then he turned away from
them and looked down the hill to his
shop. Eth. well! I reckon / am the
man who is I'm a state of arrested de-
velopment concerning women!"
The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1914-02-12
CONTINUED next week.)
Land Question in Mexico.
From the Christian Herald.

From the Christian Herald.
When General Villa, the rebel COM
mander in Mexico, issued his decree
coufiscating the vast estates OF the
Creel and Terrazas families in behalf
of the people, he let in a light which
strikes very close to the heart of the
real problem in that republic. One
must go deeper than the news In the
daily press to find the aus of the
troubles In Mexico. and the reason for
the continued unrest, out OF which has
sprung the apparently endless success
sion Of revolutions in that country. 1t
is the old evil Of the absorption of
the land and the exploitage of the COM
mon people by clever and INSCRIPTIONS
men, singly and in combination. They
want the land and the right 20 share
In Its products. At the present time
700 patrician families own practically
the whole of agricultural Mexico. The
people also want the total abolition of
peonage, which Is simply slavery. They
had a glimpse Of greater possibilities
during Madero's administration; but
these were swept away by the rise OF
Huerta. 1t Is their struggle for the
realization Of these hopes that has won
for them the sympathy of lovers OF
progress and justice everywhere.
The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1914-02-12

1t has now been six months since / took
any medicine at all. l hope my little
note viii assist you in helping other wo-
men, / now feel perfectly well and in
the best Of health" - Mrs. AUGUST
w. KoNDNER, 1882 Hollins Street, Bal
timore, Md.
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound, made from native roots and
herbs, contains no narcotic or harmful
drugs, and to-day holds the record OF
being the most successful remedy for
female ills we know of, and thousands
of voluntary testimonials on file in the
Pinkham laboratory at Lynn, Mass,
seem to prove this fact
For thirty years it has been the stand
ard remedy for female ills, and has re-
stored the health of thousands of women
who have been troubled with such all
ments as displaeements, inflammation,
liberation, tumors, irregularities, etc.
III you want special advice
write to Lydia E. Pinkham Med
icine CO., (confidential) Lynn,
Mass. Your letter will be opened,
read and answered by q woman
and held In strict confidence
The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1914-02-12
NO POSSIBILITY Or HELP


When september Morn" was In tn
final week Of rehearsal a bare. spot
In act III. gave unbounded annoyance
to the actors. and the managers, the
librettist, who was appealed to again
and again to do something to brighten
q scene which was simply talk, and
yet could not be cut out without
throwing awry the stage directors
scheme OF songs, dances and costume
changes. The nbrettist at length
made this appeal to Dave" Lewis, the
star Of the piece: p"
Say, old fellow, you've been q
comedian for 20 years and must have
a trunkful Of hokum. Won't you dig
down into 1t and fish up something
that will help US over this spot?"
Mr.. Lewis answer was:
I've been an actor for 20 years,
and I had a trunkful CT hokum. But
I've dug down sc 'often fixing up the
first and second acts that the trunks
empty and there's a hole in the bot
tom"
The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1914-02-12
HEAVIEST HORSE ON RECORD
Figures Show cIydesdale Weighed
More Than Any Animal Of Hls
Kind Known to History. +

The weight of the heaviest horse
ever known was 5000 pounds. This
horse, a ~Clydesdale, was exhibited in
New York in 1889. It was 211s hands
high and although only five years old
measured 80 inches round the arm.
45 inches round the stife or knee
Joint, IS inches girth, 34h round the
hip and ii feet four inches in length.
It was of perfect proportions. with a
head IS inches in length. A French
authority gives the weight Of horses
as follows: Excluding ponies, which
have an average weight of 40 pounds,
the weight Of horses varies from geo
to 1,540 pounds. The weight of cart
horses varies between LOO and 1910
pounds. The weight of car and
coupe horses, which is about the same
as that of cavalry horses, varies be-
tween 900 and 1856 pounds. These
weights are for adult animals.
The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1914-02-12
Perpetual Aneedote.

When Oliver Goldsmith was a youth
some young people at a gathering
were amusing themselves by trying to
see who could make the ugliest face.
Many extravagant facial contortions
were on display.
At the conclusion the master Of
ceremonies stepped up to Goldsmith
and said: "Sir, 1 think you have won
the prize"
"Oh," responded the poet, 81 wasn't
playing"
This incident also happened to Fred.
erick the Great, Dean Swift, William
the Silent, Louis XIV, Mr.. Pepys, Ivan
the Terrible, Julius Caesar, Socrates
and Attila the Hun.-Kansas City
Journal.
The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1914-02-12
His Grievance.

The court of appeal has finally de
uGAed against Mr.. George Gray, the
wnll-known actor, in the action
brought against him by Miss Marie
Uoreln for Infringing the copyright OF
Mar novel, Temporal Power" in his
uanstch, THE Peoples King"
II Miss Corelli has a large circle Of
xnaders who admire her books, there
- also q number Of people who dc
mot Two men belonging to the op'
posing camps, both well-known jour,
Malists, were discussing her the other
Aay. " ~.i. .....
What ! like about Miss Corelli, "
mRid the one who admired the al.
AhOress, sis that she is $3.50 alive!"
Yes, that's what l object to-" re.
ecrted the other.-Pearson's Weekly.
The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1914-02-12
Tho HELPING Hand.
From the New York Herald.

That the appointment of a receiverRhip
for important dry goods houses will be
cited as evidence Of business depression
is a foregone conclusion. Calamity
howlers," republicans ousted from office.
and inveterate bears" are not likely to
let slip any opportunity TO cry II told
you so'' or repeat the old, old warnings
of ruin that must be wrought by the demo-
cratic party's policy.
But all that is a matter of politics ana
has nothing whatever to do with the diff
ficulties Of these dry goods firms. The
plain truth Is. they have made an error
of calculation that has no general Sig
n~ificance. $500.
Their difficulties can be easily sur
mounted II other big dry goods firms come
to the rescue, Just as in q financial crisis
banking interests combine to help q strick-
en- brother. .- #t. ,..a- ~. .-t
The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1914-02-12
"rhey saYI They say!"

Wife-The cashier at the bank says
you are Just the meanest, stingiest-
Husband-Great Scott! Wha-what
is that? He says
Well. he didn't say 1t in so many
words, but that is what he meant. OF
course"
Look here! What did the fellow
say?"
HE asked me to indorse the check.
and, when 1 told him l didn't know
what he meant he said he presumed
l hadn't had much experience in get
ting checks cashed-so there!"
The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1914-02-12
Quite True.

Patience see an international
congress for physical education will
DO held In Paris in March.
Patrice-What's the use? We all
know it is a physical im~possibility to
educate some people.
The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1914-02-12

Soth-
pound did for me.
/ suffered dreadful
pains and was very
irregular. I became
alarmed and sent for
Lydia e. Pinkbarn's
Vegetable Com
pound. Itook it reg
ularly until / was
without a cramp or
pain and felt like
another person. and
The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1914-02-12
From Many. One.

This is our most valuable fowl"
and the amateur hen farmer.
"a fine breed" remarked the visitor,
trying to look wise.
yes indeed. We have named her
q Pluribus Unum."
why the name?" the visitor ques-
toned.
"She came from the only egg that
hatshed Of fifty in the incubator"
Every man is his own master OF
else a slave for others.
The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1914-02-12

Liverpool has completed the worlds
largest drydock. 1920 feet long and l65
Feet wide at the later line, the only
2 in the world large enough to re-
ceiya = new so, oO0-ton liners.
The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1914-02-12

DR.. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets regulate
and invigorate stomach, liver and bowels.
Sugar-coated, tiny granules. Easy to take
as candy. Adv. - =
The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1914-02-12

A woman knows her new hat isn't
becoming to her because her dearest
enemy tells her It is.
The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1914-02-12

Only One ''BROMo QUININE"
TO get the genuine. call for full name, LAXA.
TIVE BRoMo QUININR. Look for signature Of
X. w. GROVE. Cures q Cold In One Day. 2So.
The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1914-02-12
THIS WOMAN'S
SICKNESS
Quickly Yielded To Lydia E.
Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound.

Baltimore, Md. -" am more than
glad to tell what Lydia E. Pinkham's
The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1914-02-12

The Attempt.
did the new actress in the party
try to do the swoon well?"
she made a faint effort"
The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1914-02-12

l@ Accommodating.
Drink to me only with thine eyes
-All right; here's looking at you'll
Baltimore American.
The Winslow mail., 1914-05-16

began the biggest battle that the state
had known.
1t might have dragged on forever. 1t
would certainly have ended in Haynes
victory. His enemies sent spies under
the guise of friends, learned his strong
points and his weak ones. They found,
among other things, that he had an ex-
aggerated idea of the customs preva-
lent in that unsettled portion of the
community. A blackguard insulted his
wife; his pretended friends told him,
when the man came out of the hos
pital, that he would have to accept a
challenge to fight a duel. Haynes in
nocently accepted the invitation, went
out before daybreak, and met his ad-
versary with a pistol from which the
bullet had been secretly extracted.
Both fired. John Haynes fell, crippled
and paralyZed by a bullet in the spine.
When he recovered consciousness he
was lying in a city hospital under a
different name and charged with MUIR
der.
His enemies, knowing the gigantic
issues at stake, had played their last
card upon the young Englishman's 8
ignorance of American customs, and
had won. Afraid to murder him
when he lay bleeding and helpless up
on the field Of honor" they had spirit
ed him away to city slum, dressed
him in rags, and left him lying in an
alley after a gang battle-also ar
ranged with a dead man beside him.
AS Pete Timmons, a notorious gang
leader, he was arraigned before cor
rupt judge and sentenced to serve for
fourteen years in the state peniten-
tiary. Next day the case was discon-
tinued; it was reported that Haynes
had accepted a settlement and gone
back to England; the conspirators
came into possession of the land. John
Haynes, IN court, had reserved his de-
fense, by the advice of his corrupt
counsel, and only learned that SEN
tence had been pronounced while
he lay helpless paralytic, in the Jail
hospital.
Every element in the state that
should have been a force for justice
was leagued against him. He never
saw his wife or child again; he could
learn nothing. He entered the peni-
tentiary as Pete Timmons; when he
persisted in his story he was placed
The Winslow mail., 1914-05-16

afforded a very simple explanation.
The chair was fitted with large gyro-
scope, that ingenious toy which has
lately been found to possess remark
able qualities capable of being applied
to travelling vehicles of all kinds. In
brief, the gyroscope is simply a top
which, when set spinning at any angle,
retains the same plane of incidence
and cannot be dislodged from it until
the motive force runs down. Controlled
by an ordinary gas engine, and affixed
to the chair, the latter was enabled to
run with perfect steadiness upon sin
gle wheel, attaining the prodigious
rate of two hundred miles an hour,
while, so long as the gyroscope re-
volved, no mechanical force short of a
trip-hammer could upset the vehicle,
which could move on roads or side
walks, or, with still greater facility,
upon the single rails of train and troll
ley tracks, on stretched ropes, or even
on telegraph wires, for the wheel was
grooved for this special purpose.
Who was this crippled man who
had contrived so wonderful machine?
John Haynes was an Englishman
forty years of age, and, five years be-
fore, in no wise differed from thou
sands of other Englishmen of good
family and fair circumstances. Then
the day came when he received a let
ter from certain lawyer named
Frank Staples, who was at that time
just struggling out of want into af-
fluence through dubious practices.
Staples informed him that his uncle,
one of the original settlers of Nokomis
Falls, had died, leaving him sole heir
to property in land, the value Of which
was estimated at $1,000,000. He Of
fered to settle up the estate for that
sum.
John Haynes sailed by the next
steamship with his wife and daughter,
surprised Staples in his office, and dis
covered that the value of the estate
was not one but eleven millions of dol
lars. He threw Staples over and
went west to fight his battle alone.
That was the mans sterling honesty
of nature and fighting quality. He
would not compromise with crooks. He
found that Staples had formed a COM
pany claiming the land under certain
antiquated acts of the legislature.
John Haynes refused five millions and
The Winslow mail., 1914-05-16

At one o'clock on the afternoon of
April IA, 1918, thousand newsboys
ran racing through the streets Of New
York city, shouting at the top of their
lungs and frantically waving extras"
wet from the press and smudgy with
printers ink, which were snatched up
by all who could get near them. "All
about the devil-chair!" they shouted.
1.-The devil-chair runs up the cables of
Brooklyn bridget" "The devil eludes
the police force Of the five boroughs!"
1.-The devil at large in New York
state!" "'Shoot like dog says Gov
ernor Smith" Extra! Extra! Ten
cents, sir!''
The facts were these: About mid
day crippled man in strange
wedge-shaped invalid's chair was seen
by two policemen in that residential
section of Brooklyn in which resided
Mr.. Frank Staples, the millionaire di-
rector of the Nokomis Land Develop
ment company and numerous other or
ganiZations. What seemed most curl
Gus to them was that the chair was
balanced upon a single wheel, while
from its interior there issued a faint
buzzing sound, like that of top hum
ming at full speed. The cripple, hav-
ing gained access to Mr.. Staples
house, had forced him, at the revol-
ver's mouth, to open his safe and hand
him five thousand dollars in bills; he
then made his way out of the house
and limped into the chair, when he
was arrested by the patrolmen, who
had opportunely arrived upon the
scene.
Then occurred the ineXplicable fea-
ture of the performance In the midst
of a huge crowd, the cripple suddenly
snatched the money out of the hand
of one Cf the patrolmen, pressed a
spring in the chair, and dashed away
at the rate of hundred and fifty miles
an hour He raced through Brooklyn,
eluded the police force upon the Brook
lyn bridge, and travelling upon the sim
gle wheel, ran up the six-inch cables
and down on the Manhattan side, and
SO made his way in safety into the
northern part of New York state.
No wonder that this amazing vehicle
became known as the devil-chair!
The mystery was solved about ten
minutes after the first extra" came
from the press. Like all mysteries, it
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1914-11-09
FARNERS WILL
REAP BENEFIT
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The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1914-11-09
DESTROYS
ADA AMETH0D|ST
CHURCH SUNDAY
FLAMES SPREAD THROUGH A DE-
FECTlVE FURNACE BEFORE
CHURCH HOURS. LOSS WILL
REACH $4,000

Ada Okla. Nov. Sire spreading
through a defective furnace totally
destroyed the First Methodist church
here Sunday morning a few hours be-
fore the regular hour of church ser,
vice. entaiIing a loss Of $4,000.
Owing TO the fact that for a con,
siderable while before being discov-
cred the flames burned fercely be-
tween the ceiling and steel roof of the
building, they gained such headway
that all efforts to extinSuish them
proved futile While responding to
the fire alarm the fire truck broke
through a culvert and the delay occa-
stoned gave TO the flames an oppor.
tuuity to spread. Insurance on the
building amounts to about $1,000.
Destruction of the building will not
interfere with the holding Of the East.
eru Oklahoma Methodist conference,
which will convene here Wednesday
Every church in Ada has been placed
at the disposal of the Methodist organ.
izatiou for use during the conference.
the principal assemblies OF which will
be held in the large Baptist audi.
torium
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1914-11-09

firm is filling a miIlion-doIlar order for
cotton supplies for hospital use, and
another company in the same city
has an order for 5000 packages Of
Iockjaw antitoxiu The Italian gov
ernmeut, through its American agents
has contracted for the entire output
of American factories OF aeroplanes,
and air craft motors, while New Eng
land shoe factories have orders alrea-
dy for S4.000oOU worth Of soldiers,
shoes The allies have placed large
orders with American manufacturers
for motor trucks and auto artillery
wagons. Galveston recently shipped a
big cargo of wheat direct to Greece
and local milling firm has rush or
der for 10000 barrels OF flour, the
largest single order Of flour ever re
ceived from Europe. American toy fac
tories are working three shifts turning
might Into day to make up the supply
.ot Christmas toys heretofore imported
from Germany.
Europe VIII exhaust America sup
ply Of horses, cattle, hogs. sheep.
wheat, corn and clothing both wool
and cotton, leather. steel products and
tobacco. Every Indication points TO a
.ous-dra" n-oIt struggle IN the Euro
pean war and the far seeing farmer
Who raises cattle ana sheep can make
enough money during the next fye
year To retire upon II.
Ninety days ago all Europe sus-
pended payment or ltS own debts and
demanded gold from the United States
thus putting a financial strain upon
America, the Ike OF which was never
known before. Ne" York city prompt
.y paid its S>o.ooo0oo maturing indebt-
edneNS Held abroad ana syndicate OF
American bankers immediately raised
SI0o.0oo'o0o OF gold TO pay or
Europe $ immediate interest claims
NO" the Tap'u'' eNIaF-'us 'oIuine oil
our export commodities To Europe to
De PAID tor IN -oIu or TO oa'ahce
America debts there, VIII reduce the
So-ca"ed problem 10 an academic pa
Sis.
Mt Hamiin. governor OF the fed
mas we" Sd'u' Inc 'ea' u''uCU''E Is
one OF credit MUTUAL trust anu NOuu-