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The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1915-09-23
; OLD MEN REMAIN ...
. HEROES OF WAR

Edward r. Bushnell In the philadelphia
Evening Ledger. ..


Edward r. Bushnell In the philadelphia
Evening Ledger. ALI
Another aged commander enters the
llraelight Of the European war. Prince
Leopold. of Bavaria, who will be 70 years
cid on his next birthday. Is the man who,
technically at least. has captured Warsaw.
And the taking OF the Polish capital,
after the failure OF the two previous cam
paigns, Is unquestionably the browning
military achievement OF the TeutoniO
arms.
The advanced age of Prince Leopold
makes him a tit companion of the military
commanders on both sides of this fray.
Field Marshal Won Hindenburg, who led
the great semi-circular sweep around
Warsaw to the northeast, came out OF re-
tirement to take command of the eastern
army. And he Is now 6s years old. The
sian retreat Is led by another famous
fighter who. according to his age, ought to
be on the retired list. He Is Marshal
old. Thus these three military heroes OF
the German nation, who have driven the
Russians out of most of Poland and hurled
them back over the Carpathians average
nearly 6S years old.
Somewhat the same situation exists In
the allied armies on the western front.
General Joffre. at the head Of the French
while his three leading subordina ties,
Foch, Castlenau and Gallient, are all in
their Cos. General French and Earl
Kitchener: Of the English forces have al
Count Cardona, OF Italy, has also lived
more than three-score years.
Won Hindenburg and Won Mackensen
have already had their share of applause
for their military exploits. Won Hinden-
burg was Germany's first military hero
of the war when he defeated the Rus
slams In their first great clash on the east
ern border and took enough prisoners to
harvest Germany's crops. Won Macken-
sen achieved bis fame when he came to
the defense OF hard-pressed Austria and
led the expedition that drove Russia out
OF Galicia and recaptured Przemysl.
1t Is only fair, therefore. that Prince
Leopold should have his turn.
Prince Leopold and his Bavarian troops
delivered the finishing blow in front Of
Warsaw. and he Is probably now occupy.
ing the cars palace in the Polish capital.
The aged prince has until the present been
nephew. Prince Rupprecht, has played q
much more prominent part. The selection
of Prince Leopold to lead the Teutonio
forces In the center was an honor award
ed him by the kaiser. He was called from
Munich for this very purpose, the kaiser
apparently wishing the Bavarian prince
to represent him when Warsaw was en-
tered.
The Bavarian troops had not achieved
a great deal In the prosecution Of the
probably the most from the war in the
east II was entirely fitting that they
should have been the ones selected to
force the fortresses in front Of Warsaw.
Prince Leopold Is a veteran In military
experience. His military education was
received In the Austro- Hungarian army
before Bavaria became part Of Germany.
He took a prominent part in the Austro.
entirely through that war and came OF
without q scratch.
The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1915-09-23
GOOD BREADS.

Copyright, 1915, by the Mcclure News.
$50, paper Syndlcate.) 10. tr. a.
Boston brown neutrality-suspicious., two
supfuls of white cornmeal, two cupfuls
Of yellow meal, two cupfuls OF graham
Hour, one cupful Of molasses, one cup
ful Of sour milk and one OF sweet milk,
two cupfuls OF boiling water, salt to
taste and one teaspoonful of soda.
Mix the two meals, the flour and the
salt well together; add the Boiling wat
er. Put the sweet milk and molasses to-
gether and add them to first things.
Then Dissolve the soda in the sour milk
and put these in. Put the mixture into
4 round covered tin bucket and steam 1t
for three hours: uncover and bake In
the oven for half an hour. This bread
may be eaten hot or cold and be toasted
when stale. In New England baked
beans go with It.
Whole wheat bread-Take q fresh
yeast cake and dissolve II In two table,
spoonfuls of tepld water. Put a pint
OF milk into a bowl; add to II a pint
Of boiling water and let 1t stand until Il
Is lukewarm; then put in the dissolved
yeast, salt to taste. and enough whole
flour to make q thick batter. Beat the
batter with Q spoon for is minutes
when 1t will be in liquid state. Again
add flour sufficient for q good bread
dough; turn this on the board and
hhGto q 10" hAlAAANCbs LNCNhIh kuo
dough to the pan and let II rise until
nght-for about three hours. Mold into
small Foaves, let rise again and bake
for So or 45 minutes in a moderate oven.
ChiIdren's apple bread-An old-fash-
toned dish for children is prepared as
follows: One quart of cornmeal, one
pint of ripe chopped apples, three table
spoonflls Of butter. pinch Of salt and
one and one-half cups Of water; sweeten
as desired and bake as ordinary corn
bread. $685.. ..--.... p. ...s. ...'..--..--
Raised cornbread-Ingredients one
cupful Of fine sifted cornmeal, one and
q half cupfuls OF milk, tive eggs, one
tablespoonful OF butter. one teaspoonful
OF baking powder. one teaspoonful OF
sugar, sait.
Scald the milk and pour IL over tho
meal Let cool and then add the butter
(melted,) salt, sugar, baking powder
and yoIa1s Of eggs beaten to q stiff
froth. Bake In q fiat pan In q hot
oven for 80 minutes.
Gluten bread-Pour q pint Of boiling
water into pint of boiling milk; add
a teaspOonful of butter and salt to
taste. Let the LIQUID stand until luke
warm; then add an egg, well beaten,
a quarter OF q yeast cake Dissolved In
tepid water, and enough gluten flour to
make a soft batter. Cover the batter
and stand II In q warm place 10 rise;
then add enough gluten flour to make
a soft dough and knead II well. Form
several small loaves and let rise again
Bake for an hour.
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Pockat kniNea.

From the Paris (Mo.) Mercury.
What becomes Of all pocket knives Is as
great a mystery as what becomes Of all
the pins Sometimes when long shadows
ran across the yard. when the night birds
are calling and the baby across the way
has soualled his last squall until the next,
we sit idly musing, recalling one by one
the knives we have known and loved.
Srhe first was a Barlow with one blade;
with II came gladness such as the world
can never know again. The second was
am iron handled IT. X. L." with a razor
edge. and dignity was added to Joy. We
swarped insight unseen with "Old Man
Abbey" were swindled outrageously, con-
traCted the trading habit and all sorts and
Conditions followed. None fingered. At
ne we acquired four-bladed Wosternholm
that would split a hair: at 20 we owned
a pearl-handled boudoir blade, which we
carried In a buokskin sack and used only
for manicuring purposes. or to lend cas-
ually to a girl we pestered, and at 70 a
bearded bard, We were pTeSente by tho
late Adolphus Busch, In recognition OF
services to him and his, with beautiful
knife encased in a burnt bone handle, con-
raining a corkscrew attachment with his
picture hidden cunningly In one end and
that Of a strange lady with no clothes on
in the other. She was very beautiful.
even II not particular. bur went the way
of all others. The seven ages Of man. the
ideals and aspirations distinctive OF each,
are marked by the pocket knife he owns,
loves for a time and loses. At 40 or more.
mewling again. airy old sort of a knife
that will clean pipe or cap a bottle will
do but even they won't stick. h.-"
The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1915-09-23
SOUVENIR COINS ARE
CALLED IN BY BANKS

Berlin--Cby maiL)-The Imperial
bank has invented a new device for
increasing it's gold stock. 1t Is aimed
at the many memorial gold coins which
people either lay aside or wear as jew
elry Thus not few German women
wear brooches or bracelets with three
gold coins Of 1883. called the Three
Kaiser year." bearing the heads Of
three emperors who ruled over Ger
many in that year. Coins OF 1913, in
commemoration Of the present emper-
or's 25th year on the throne. are sim
ilarly treasured Coins OF this kind
have not been turned into the Imperial
bank out of patriotism. because the
owners think that they show their pa
triotism best by holding on to them.
Now the bank Is inviting them to sur
render tho treasured coins and take
receipts for them. and promises to re-
turn to them similar coins within a
year after peace.
BRIDGES destiny.
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Draft Horss IL Doomed.
From Chicago News.


The heavy draft horse Is doomed, He
win not vanish suddenly, but his hour
has struck. Motor trucks already are
d.splacing him in cities. The cheap farm
tractor will do the same in the country.
In q few decades the great, magnificent
brutes will be little more than q memory.
Their places VIII be taken by bloodiess
machines, that never whinny greetings
to q kind master, never search one's
pockets for sugar-and never break their
legs on Icy pavementg or drag out q
friendless old age under the whips OF
stupid, greedy drivers, ~ SIS '.-
When one thinks OF these last consid-
erations, the horseless age doesn't seem
so gloomy as prophecy. But IL man Is
wise there win be no horseless age.
II man has any real wisdom-and that
belief though often disappointed, never
dies-the horse will be promoted to the
position of hurnanity's chief pet and
playtbing, but always with q substratJm
Of usefulness which will keep him from
degenerating into a mere toy. The draft
horse. the trotter-even the general
purpose animaP'-'may 20, but the saddle
horse ought to stay and thrive.
The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1915-09-23
MARK GRAVES WIN NAPLES
Plan Proposed 70 Honor caneda's
Dead Who Have Fallen in
Flanders.

How to mark permanently the rest
Ing places OF the thousands Of Cana.
dian soldiers who have fallen IN Elan.
ders and in France Is a matter TO
which the people OF the dominion have
given considerable thought. 49,
From a member OF the Overseas
club comes the happy suggestion that
since the maple leaf Ii the emblem Of
Canada, maple trees be planted over
the isolated graves and along the
roads leading to the cemeteries. He
has already sent millions Of seeds to
France, and is to send more
The species chosen is the sugar
maple, and so France in time VIII
have q beautiful memorial OF the
aliens who gave their lives for her.
Youths Companion.
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General Robertson.
Alfred G. Gardiner in the Atlanti

Alfred G. Gardiner in the Atlantic.
The remarkable fact about General
Robertson is that he mas won his way
to distinction by the qualities of his
mind. He has brought into the British
army the rare element Of abstract
ithinking-that learning of which we
in the past have had too little and the
Germans apparently too much. That he
Is a gallant soldier goes without say
ing. 1t is said that. although born in
Lincolnshire, he comes of that fighting
stock. the Clan Chattan, memorable 20
every reader of Scott And he has seen
active service in India and In South
Africa and was wounded in ChitraL
But ii is in the lecture room and the
study, and not in the field, that the
youth who enlisted in the Sixteenth
Lancers more than 80 years ago has
won bis unique distinction. He dis
covered a genius for languages, in
GLIDING Indian dialects, and this paved
his way to notice. And once he had got
his foot on the ladder his progress was
irresistible, for he revealed an under
standing of the science Of war that i'm
pressed all who came in contact with
him, and his ultimate appointment as
commandant of the staff college at
Comberley gave the army the rare ex-
perience of an Incompatible lecturer.
Today there is no officer in the British
army who is listened to with such re-
spect as the former private of the Six
teenth Lancers. AS chief of the staff
to Sir John French he is the power be-
hind the throne. r .
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DISGRACE or BEING !
CALLED HIGH BROW 4
3t+t* -
From Harper's MJlgazine


The worst fault, however. into which our
agelong service Of medlocrity has led ua
Is a weakened. pusillanimous Differences
to mediocrity itself. The college has bor-
rowed the vice from everyday American
life. For example. the most deadly wea-
pom In the yellow journalists armory 10
the term "highbrow."
A politician may be called CRATER"
boss" or even 'muclkraker," and escape
unscathed; but IL he Is denounced as q
"highbrow," and the label sticks. his
career is ended. A playwright or a novel
fist may be written down as cheap" he
may be said TO plagiarize, he may be
shown to be vicious and unclean, without
serious damage to his reputation but let
him be proved 'highbrow'' ard the pub
lie will fly from him as IL he we're
book agent.
Now the widespread American belief
that knowledge makes a man impractical
Is responsible for some Of this curious
odium: but far more is due to our servile
Difference to mediocrity. The weight OF
public opinion is usually against the ex-
pert, the specialist, the thinker, the ex-
ceptional man i'm general, for public opin-
ion, whether right or wrong, is always
mediocre; and there are few among US
who do not in this respect yield some
how, somewhere. to public opinion.
The doctor distrusts the advanced politi-
cal theorist, the politician distrusts the
adY1hced dTamatist, the dramatist sneers
at the innovations OF science. We are all
made tim!d by the enormous majoritieH
which uphold mediocrity.
The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1915-09-23
~cNLY AN ARTILLERY
DUEL" rs INTERNAL

y Alexander Powell IN scribner's.

~ Alexander Powell In Scribner's.
There are no words between the covers
- the dictionary which can convey any
oAeQuats idea Of what one OF these great
artSllsry actions Is like. One has to see
SSiid hsss- u brick and stone collapse
n Though they were built OF cards.
Whole towns are RACED to the ground as
3 Sty Of tents would be leye eye ed by a
MS Gaping holes as large as cottage
cellars suddenly appear In the fields and
the stone-payed roads, Geysers of
smoke and earth shoot high into the afr.
4ho helds are strewn with the shocking
fenains Of what had once been men;
Hedias without heads or arms or legs
Dad horses. broken wagons, bent and
shattered equipments are everywhere.
The noise Is beyond all description
Gose-by clap OF thunder which. instead
81 lasting for q fraction OF q second,
lastp for hours. There is no diminution
{Sry sAs CESSATION ns S The ground heaveS and
Nhudders beneath your feet. You find
4 dffficult to breathe. Your head throbs
Yea Eel as though your ear drums had
ben shattered. The very atmosphere
heipltates TO the tremendous detonations.
ev W ed gives You the feeling that the
0kioa are falling Compared with II, the
HoaF OF the cannon at Gettysburg must
have sounded like the popping of fire.
crackers. .-.
Tnconceivably awe-inspiring and terri
lying a. 10 modern artillery action,
enc eventually becomes accustomed to It,
hut have yet to meet the person who
could say with perfect truthfulness that
he WAS indifferent to the FIRE of the
German siege cannon. I have twice been
under the fire OF the German siege guns
I'm Antwerp last October and In Dun
kfrk IN early Maryland I hope with all
my heart that I shall never have the ex-
nIrfAncct again. s t4Ssa -.-..
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Factories on the farm.
Prom the Atlanta Constitution,

.# y.
The Charlotte Observer. speaking of new
features In farming operations In North
Caroiina, OF the prosperous stock and
1airy farms there, whose money making
Tarts have put the farmers TO. thinking, -
/. III OF the profitable farm factory" OF
n l.. Shuford, an extensive north state
sf)n the farm a spring branch that had
4 N wasting It's life I'm Idle song was har-
,ssed and Is now manufacturing ice
cream. producing block Ice operating a
creamery and furnishing light and power
1or farm and household purposes. And all
IA coats the farmer Is the trouble of turn
ing On the water and shutting 1t Off"
That is farming on the scientific princi-
ne and making every edge cut. And other
nrooressiye farmers are following Mr.
khufords lead, with the result that the
farm factory idea Is growing. It Is mere
IN the turning OF waste material into dol.
lars and cents. ley
The observer also states on good au-
2fority. that IN sort time the entire
HrclxienhurR section viii become strictly
4 hrass grain and cattle country.
"a Even on a liniii ed scale The "farn-fac.
torys pays ltE way Through this agency
the farmer becomes a manufacturer as
weil as q producer. and one enterprise
81 this kind 10 certain to be supplemented
w others .5s
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A Natural conaeauance.

81 see that Cleveland has osic
those perfect babies now, said ar
Blight. Perhaps II l had not been
perfect baby would not always J.
casting gloom upon my enerhies
have no friends), my surroundings Al
myself today. But when sas
child, my parents. in their hyGinn
craze, fed me only sweet mili. etc
And now that have grown Up. M
disposition Graves the sour
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FIGURE NINE MOST
MYSTERIOUS NUMBER

~
From the Philadelphia Evening Ledger.
IL Shakespeare had asked WHATS N
nurnber9d as well as whats I'm =
Manner and pursued that incz Try he woulo
have found an endless field Tor investlBa-s
ton There y something unSanny a .ha
mysterious In the character OF figures the
strange things you can do with them anu
the way certain attributes recur IN tneil
use.
The numbers 3, and furnish the most
interesting study. Numbers and have
their good points, but IN otency ana Yer.
satllity they have to take back sea-
when 9 has the stage No. was aa Ine
cd for seven days an the week, the seven
golden candlesticks. the seven lean years
that devoured the seven fat ones and me
seven lean cattle that made meal on tins
The Rule Of Three is a nightmare in
every childs education. As his education
the Three Graces, ''Three Men in Boat, !"
Ihe Three Musketeers." It's on the pan
held, though. that number 3 shines. Here
hnd the three basemen, the three outnelo-
ers, three strikes and three outs. Ana
pursuing this line of reckoning shouldnt
man get his base on three balls instead
OF IourE Then, there airs sucn trlvial
tnlngs as three meals day, the third De-
gree. the three estates and three cheers. !.
But you can't begin to manipulate and
as you can 3. Take the multiplication
table Tor example. Eyerywhere the PROB
any difference what you multiply with or
figures. Just try It. Multiply by and
ST. Mu aSS a 30 and and t SOa h sSs
~. Again plus equals Q. There Is no
variation until you multiply by IL. This
gives you 80 and apparently an inconsis.
tency. But add the two digits and y
snd you get Is and again plus equals J.
s,hls process may be carried out to an In
leterminable length and the results are
always the same. Pick out any number
ct random. For example, 1853. Multiply
u by and you get II, 067 Add the digits
and you have Is. add these dlgits again
and reappears.
Now try another. Take any row of fig
, preS at random, reverse their order and
subtract the less from the greater. AL
ways the total will be either or a multi
pie OF 3. For example take SA59 which
reversed reads, 9543. Subtract $40 from
s,BS and you have 6,OS4. Add the digits
and the result Is Is, a multiple OF 8. The
same result follows, no matter whether
the numbers are raised BY squares or by
cubes XII.
Here is another way by which the num-
per exerts its strange powers. Write
GOWN at random any number add It's dig
US AMI then subtract the sum OF these
algits from the original number The sum
of the digits thus obtained will always be
either 3 or multiple OF 8. Thus take $50.
Adding the digits gives II. Subtracting IT
from 1S25 leaves 1908. Add the digits and
Eou get Is, and adding and 8 gives 8.
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chonnlnn ANN on.

While Sandstone Smith, the p-orii-
nent Oklahoma cattle baron, who was
recently In Kansas City. was saunter-
ing through the lobby Of his hotel,
he was accosted by suaye and gini5
let-eyed stranger.
Pardon me, sir" said the latterl
''but you look very much like raan|
/ used to know"
II do, har?" returned Sandstorrn.
well, you look heck Of sight morel
like a man l don't know and never
want tot"
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The rhinoceros surveyed the wortt
complacently. After all. set thfJ
pace, in a manner Of speakingr qsoth
he.
Whereat the other beasts burst D !
laughing.
well, it's a fact" the rhinoceF
insisted. Tell me, please, VIE
would civilization be If II were il.
for men with hides like mine?' HAP
burg Patriot. sJst -
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How the War BEGAN.

r. Spillane in Commerce and Finance.
II was a year ago that the emperor Of
Austria, doddering remnant of a decayed
and d1sreputable family, declared war on
the king Of Serbia, q monarch, whose
great-grandfather was O pig sticker
Out OF that act has developed the most
Vicious, terrible and costly conflict in the
worlds history. Eleven nations are at
war. More are likely to be drawn in.
The end seems further off now than Il
did six months ago. ~
In killed, wounded, missing and prts-
oners the losses aggregate 10,0o0,00o .,..@
In ~ months the science OF slaughter
has advanced by leaps and bounds
With another year what would the to-
tails be? ... ..sa
Germany, France, Belgium, Russia,
Turkey, italy, England and Austria are
fighting to the death, but the doddering
old emperor who started the var no long,
er Is waging battle AGAINST the king
whose great grandfath ~ was a p!gstick-
er. In the horrors thai nave come out OF
the war the nreteXt that served to pre-
cipitate the conflict has become but q
memory. g.. -... ... ~ .... &. ~.
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Truly Rostonese.

Contrary to her custom, o Boston
woman strayed far enough from hcmo
to encounter a mile post. on winch
she saw inscribed, Il NJ. from Boston,
Thinking it a gravestone. she read
softly, I'm from Bostor," and lE&n
commented thoughtfully. How stsls
pie and sufficient. "-Lippincotts.
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Among literary works planned, but
never written, have been Life OF
Hazlitt," by Stevenson; History of the
Wars In Flanders" by Sir Richard
Steele; Life OF Talleyrand," by
Thaclxeray, and "a History OF Our
yernacular Literature" by Isaac Dis
raen
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kIIIIna chrlstIans In Turkey.
Constantinople Correspondent of Boston
TraUacrinf

A German official recently told an
American who was travelling In the coun-
try that they were out TO eliminate the
Christian races In Turkey. They are sue
ceedfnR and there 10 none to raise q pro-
thirst for blood and destruction and 10
carry out the suggestions made by her
masters In Europe. Never In Moslem his
tory has there been such a riot OF crime
and carnival of murder aimed at the an
nihilat.on OF the American and Greek
races whose only fault Is that they are
not MosleGns. 3